Normal-Mode Spectroscopy of a Single-Bound-Atom–Cavity System

2004/06/30 by Peter Maunz, P. Maunz, Thomas Puppe +7 · 6 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.94.033002

published as Phys. Rev. Lett., 94, 033002 (2005). · 4 pages, 4 figures

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Abstract

The energy-level structure of a single atom strongly coupled to the mode of a high-finesse optical cavity is investigated. The atom is stored in an intracavity dipole trap and cavity cooling is used to compensate for inevitable heating. Two well-resolved normal modes are observed both in the cavity transmission and the trap lifetime. The experiment is in good agreement with a Monte Carlo simulation, demonstrating our ability to localize the atom to within lambda/10 at a cavity antinode.

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