2017/06/28 by Magnus Albert, Aurélien Dantan, Michael Drewsen
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Atomic physics #Coulomb #Dynamics (music) #Electromagnetically induced transparency #Electron #Ion #Materials science #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Optics #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Transient (computer programming) #Transparency (behavior) #physics.atom-ph #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/09500340.2017.1401135
15 pages, 10 figures
arxiv created 2017/06/28 · openalex publication_date 2017/11/18 · arxiv updated 2018/04/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We experimentally investigate the transient dynamics of an optical cavity field interacting with large ion Coulomb crystals in a situation of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). EIT is achieved by injecting a probe field at the single photon level and a more intense control field with opposite circular polarization into the same mode of an optical cavity to couple Zeeman substates of a metastable level in 40Ca+ ions. The EIT interaction dynamics are investigated both in the frequency-domain – by measuring the probe field steady state reflectivity spectrum – and in the time-domain – by measuring the progressive buildup of transparency. The experimental results are observed to be in excellent agreement with theoretical predictions taking into account the inhomogeneity of the control field in the interaction volume, and confirm the high degree of control on light-matter interaction that can be achieved with ion Coulomb crystals in optical cavities.