Aberrations in (3+1)D Bragg diffraction using pulsed Gaussian laser beams
arXiv:2101.07647 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.103.043306
Abstract
We analyze the transfer function of a three-dimensional atomic Bragg beamsplitter formed by two counterpropagating pulsed Gaussian laser beams. Even for ultracold atomic ensembles, the transfer efficiency depends significantly on the residual velocity of the particles as well as on losses into higher diffraction orders. Additional aberrations are caused by the spatial intensity variation and wavefront curvature of the Gaussian beam envelope, studied with (3+1)D numerical simulations. The temporal pulse shape also affects the transfer efficiency significantly. Thus, we consider the practically important rectangular-, Gaussian-, Blackman- and hyperbolic secant pulses. For the latter, we can describe the time-dependent response analytically with the Demkov-Kunike method. The experimentally observed stretching of the -pulse time is explained from a renormalization of the simple Pendellösung frequency. Finally, we compare the analytical predictions for the velocity-dependent transfer function with effective (1+1)D numerical simulations for pulsed Gaussian beams, as well as experimental data and find very good agreement, considering a mixture of Bose-Einstein condensate and thermal cloud.
20 pages, 15 figures
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