Robins, NicholasMorrison, AdeleHope, JosephClose, John2015-12-131050-2947http://hdl.handle.net/1885/80237We present experimental results demonstrating that the flux of a continuous atom laser beam cannot be arbitrarily increased by increasing the strength of output coupling. We find that the continuous atom laser has large density fluctuations when the RabiKeywords: Density fluctuations; Output coupling; Rabi frequency; Radial trapping frequency; Frequencies; Laser beams; Mathematical models; Atomic physics200510.1103/PhysRevA.72.0316062015-12-11