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Optica, Optics Express, 19(16), p. 14716, 2008

DOI: 10.1364/oe.16.014716

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Feedback control of an atom laser

Journal article published in 2008 by R. G. Dall, C. J. Dedman, A. G. Truscott ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

We report the first real-time feedback control of an atom laser. The unique feature of metastable helium atoms, the production of ions in the atom laser outcoupling process, is exploited to actively control the spatial location inside the Bose-Einstein condensate where outcoupling occurs. Unlike alkali atom lasers, this provides almost instantaneous feedback which reduces frequency, amplitude and spatial mode fluctuations in the atom laser beam.