2013/10/25 by Aaron Reinhard, Jean-Félix Riou, Reinhard, Aaron +5
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Optics (physics.optics) #Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas) #cond-mat.quant-gas #physics.atom-ph #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1310.6983
4 pages, 2 figures
arxiv created 2013/10/25 · arxiv updated 2013/10/28
We demonstrate Babinet's principle by the absorption of high intensity light from dense clouds of ultracold atoms. Images of the diffracted light are directly related to the spatial distribution of atoms. The advantages of employing Babinet's principle as an imaging technique are that it is easy to implement and the detected signal is large. We discuss the regimes of applicability of this technique as well as its limitations.