Abstract
The localization of atoms on a scale small compared to the optical wavelength is of both scientific and technological importance. For example, improvements in experiments in cavity QED that probe the energy spectrum and dynamics of a coupled atom-cavity system1 and that attempt to create arbitrary quantum states of the electromagnetic field2 require atomic localization along the antinomies of a standing-wave light field. However, presently available methods, such as focusing in a nearly resonant standing wave3 and passage through a single transmission grating,1 suffer from the requirement of a small beam divergence.
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