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November 19, 2001

Atoms and Photons in a Box: Wave Properties of Laser Cooled Atoms

Dr. Vladan Vuletic
Stanford University

Darwin 103
3:00 PM

Dr. Vladan Vuletic of Stanford University will describe how atoms at ultralow temperatures behave as quantum mechanical waves, and will discuss applications such as the storage of light and coherent waveguides for matter waves.