Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
2003-06-03
Physics
Optics
17 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
Doughnut shaped light beam has been generated from Gaussian mode ($TEM_{00}$) cw-Ti sapphire laser. After splitting the pump beam into two equal intensity components and introducing unequal convergence and phase delay while they are recombined it results in doughnut mode. Such a beam is tunable and have long propagation length. The evanescent field generated by 360 mW (at 780 nm wavelength) of such a beam creates optical field of 600 nm decay length with a 5.75 neV repulsive dipole potential. Thus cold Rb atoms (at 10{$\mu$}K or less temperature) released from MOT can be reflected by the surface so that the atoms are collected ultimately at the bottom of the prism. By focussing such doughnut beam with 8 cm focal length converging lens, the dark radius reduces to 22{$\mu$}. We also observe such beam to contain azimuthal phase as well as radial phase distribution.
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