Trapping and Observing Single Atoms in a Blue-Detuned Intracavity Dipole Trap

Autor:	T. Puppe, Alexander Kubanek, I. Schuster, Pepijn W. H. Pinkse, Gerhard Rempe, Karim Murr, A. Grothe
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Condensed Matter::Quantum Gases Physics Photon Scattering Cavity quantum electrodynamics Physics::Optics General Physics and Astronomy Light intensity Dipole Light Shift Atom Reflection (physics) Physics::Accelerator Physics Physics::Atomic Physics Atomic physics
Zdroj:	Physical Review Letters. 99
ISSN:	1079-7114 0031-9007
DOI:	10.1103/physrevlett.99.013002
Popis:	A single atom strongly coupled to a cavity mode is stored by three-dimensional confinement in blue-detuned cavity modes of different longitudinal and transverse order. The vanishing light intensity at the trap center reduces the light shift of all atomic energy levels. This is exploited to detect a single atom by means of a dispersive measurement with 95% confidence in 10 micros, limited by the photon-detection efficiency. As the atom switches resonant cavity transmission into cavity reflection, the atom can be detected while scattering about one photon.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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