Atom laser

[1][2] The first pulsed atom laser was demonstrated at MIT by Professor Wolfgang Ketterle et al. in November 1996.

[3] Ketterle used an isotope of sodium and used an oscillating magnetic field as their output coupling technique, letting gravity pull off partial pieces looking much like a dripping tap (See movie in External Links).

To that effect the equipment and techniques are in their earliest developmental phases and still strictly in the domain of research laboratories.

A pseudo-continuously operating atom laser was demonstrated for the first time by Theodor Hänsch, Immanuel Bloch and Tilman Esslinger at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Munich.

However, this does not constitute a continuous atom laser since the replenishing of the depleted BEC lasts approximately 100 times longer than the duration of the emission itself (i.e. the duty cycle is 1/100).