Abstract
In atomic mirrors it is important to preserve the coherence of the reflection. Diffuse reflection is equivalent to a loss of the transverse coherence of a deBroglie wave. So one would like to verify that an atomic mirror does indeed specularly reflect the atoms.
© 1996 Optical Society of America
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