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All-atom parametric oscillator

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By using a one-dimensional optical lattice to control and confine the location of cold 87Rb atoms, researchers have created a distributed Bragg reflector that enables optical parametric oscillation solely from atoms.

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Figure 1: Optical parametric oscillation with distributed feedback in cold atoms.

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  1. Matthew T. Rakher is at the Department of Physics at the University of Basel, CH-4056, Switzerland,

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  2. Kartik Srinivasan is at the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA,

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