Coherent backscattering of light by cold atoms: Theory meets experiment

2002/11/20 by G. Labeyrie, Guillaume Labeyrie, Dominique Delande +4 · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Random lasers and scattering media #cond-mat.dis-nn #physics.atom-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1209/epl/i2003-00173-x

published as Europhys. Lett. 61, 327 (2003) · 5 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Eur. Phys. Lett

arxiv created 2002/11/20 · openalex publication_date 2003/02/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

Abstract

Coherent backscattering (CBS) of quasi-resonant light by cold atoms presents some specific features due to the internal structure of the atomic scatterers. We present the first quantitative comparison between the experimentally observed CBS cones and Monte Carlo calculations which take into account the shape of the atomic cloud as well as the internal atomic structure.

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