The is is the first book on the market on the rapidly developing topic of atom optics, i.e., the manipulation of atoms by light. This research has led to atom cooling and trapping (for which the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded), Bose-Einstein condensation, and holds great promise for revolutionary developments in the field of lasers.

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
I General Concepts.- 1 Light Forces on Atoms.- 2 Atomic Cooling.- II Linear Atom Optics.- 3 Atomic Beam Collimation and Focusing.- 4 Atomic Diffraction.- 5 Atomic Traps and Cavities.- III Nonlinear Atom Optics.- 6 Collisions.- 7 Simple Applications.- IV Quantum Atom Optics.- 8 Review of Manybody Theory.- 9 Matter-Wave Coherence.- 10 Bose-Einstein Condensation.- 11 Atom Lasers.- 12 Nonlinear Wave Mixing.- 13 Mixing of Optical and Matter Waves.- References.