Abstract
A series of nondestructive dynamic detectors were proposed for Bose-Einstein condensates based on photodetectors operating at the shot-noise limit. It was found that without the presence of a cavity, interferometry causes as much destruction as absorption for optically thin clouds. A cavity-based measurement of atomic density which can in principle be made arbitrarily nondestructive for a given signal-to-noise ratio was also proposed.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 043609 |
| Pages (from-to) | 436091-4360913 |
| Number of pages | 3924823 |
| Journal | Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2003 |