atomic funnel
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atomic funnel
(ə′täm·ik ′fən·əl)
(atomic physics) A device that uses a magnetic quadrupole field and trapping and cooling laser beams to form a slowed atomic beam into a highly localized and collimated beam with a peak phase-space density over 10,000 times that of the original beam.
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