NIST: NIST physicists demonstrate highly directional atom laser from Bose-Einstein condensate.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-12 March 1999-NIST: NIST physicists demonstrate highly directional atom laser from Bose-Einstein condensate (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:110399 Atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate can be manipulated with light to form a highly directional atom laser, physicists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology report in March 12, 1999 issue of Science.

The NIST atom laser represents a significant step forward from the first atom laser demonstrated in 1997 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in that its atoms stream forward in a chosen direction as a very narrow beam. The direction of the earlier MIT atom laser beam was determined by gravity and had a big spread due to the tendency of the atoms to...