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Laser Manipulation of Atoms and Particles
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A variety of powerful techniques to control the position and velocity of neutral particles has been developed. As examples of this new ability, lasers have been used to construct a variety of traps, to cool atoms to temperatures below 3 × 10-6 kelvin, and to create atomic fountains that may give us a hundredfold increase in the accuracy of atomic clocks. Bacteria can be held with laser traps while they are being viewed in an optical microscope, and organelles within a cell can be manipulated without puncturing the cell wall. Single molecules of DNA can now be stretched out and pinned down in a water solution with optical traps. These new capabilities may soon be applied to a wide variety of scientific questions as diverse as precision measurements of fundamental symmetries in physics and the study of biochemistry on a single molecule basis.
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- Authors
- Chu, S.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1991-08-23
- Volume
- 253
- Issue
- 5022
- Pages
- 861-866
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
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- W2009996123
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- 390
- References
- 0
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- 7.08
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- journal article
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- en
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- closed
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