Abstract
This paper is devoted to the investigation of mechanical action of light on neutral atoms. In our experiments1the properties of light pressure effect are investigated by the method of scattering of an atomic sodium beam, intersecting perpendicularly an unhomogeneous strong pulse field of two counterpropagating waves (incident and reflected from the mirror ) of the resonant laser radiation (see Fig. 1). The short duration (~10 ns) of laser pulse (shorter than the spontaneous decay time of the resonant D2-line of sodium) gives us an opportunity to investigate the properties of the stimulated light pressure force, acting on atom in the unhomogeneous field without any spontaneous processes.
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