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Raman Amplification of Matter Waves

Dominik Schneble, Gretchen K. Campbell, Erik W. Streed, Micah Boyd, David E. Pritchard, Wolfgang Ketterle

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0311138

Abstract

We demonstrate a Raman amplifier for matter-waves, where the amplified atoms and the gain medium are in two different hyperfine states. This amplifier is based on a novel form of superradiance that arises from self-stimulated Raman scattering in a Bose-Einstein condensate.

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