Atom detection and photon production in a scalable, open, optical microcavity
| Autor: | Michael Trupke, E. A. Hinds, J. Goldwin, G. Dutier, Stefan Eriksson, J. P. Ashmore, B. Darquié |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
| Předmět: |
Physics
Quantum Physics Optical fiber Photon business.industry Cavity quantum electrodynamics FOS: Physical sciences Physics::Optics General Physics and Astronomy Laser Optical microcavity law.invention Resonator Optics law Optical cavity Physics::Accelerator Physics Optoelectronics Physics::Atomic Physics Quantum Physics (quant-ph) business Vacuum Rabi oscillation |
| Zdroj: | Physical review letters. 99(6) |
| ISSN: | 0031-9007 |
| Popis: | A microfabricated Fabry-Perot optical resonator has been used for atom detection and photon production with less than 1 atom on average in the cavity mode. Our cavity design combines the intrinsic scalability of microfabrication processes with direct coupling of the cavity field to single-mode optical waveguides or fibers. The presence of the atom is seen through changes in both the intensity and the noise characteristics of probe light reflected from the cavity input mirror. An excitation laser passing transversely through the cavity triggers photon emission into the cavity mode and hence into the single-mode fiber. These are first steps towards building an optical microcavity network on an atom chip for applications in quantum information processing. Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures. A typographical error in the published paper has been corrected (equation of the corrected normalized variance, page 3, 2nd paragraph) |
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