Abstract
Many atom interferometry applications would benefit from efficient, large-angle atomic beam splitters. A variety of experiments and proposals have addressed the issue of creating a large-angle, efficient atomic beam splitter.1-5 Recently Pfau et al. proposed and demonstrated the magnetooptical beam splitter, where the interaction of a three level atom with a light field of spatially varying polarization and a large magnetic field leads to beam splitting.3,6,7 Grimm et al. have suggested that a similar beam splitter can be realized by driving a two-level atom with bichromatic standing wave light fields.8 We demonstrate a beam splitter based on a three-level V system that does not require an external magnetic field. Furthermore, we will discuss a general formulation of the blazed grating interaction for three-level V systems and propose extensions applicable in a variety of atomic systems.
© 1995 Optical Society of America
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