Session Q4: Atom Optics

8:00 AM–10:18 AM, Friday, May 28, 2010
Room: Regency Ballroom

Chair: Han Pu, Rice University

Abstract ID: BAPS.2010.DAMOP.Q4.3

Abstract: Q4.00003 : Cavity-EIT with single atoms

8:42 AM–8:54 AM

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Authors:

  Martin M\"ucke
    (Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany)

  Eden Figueroa
    (Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany)

  Joerg Bochmann
    (Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany)

  Carolin Hahn
    (Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany)

  Celso Jorge Villas-Boas
    (Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany)

  Stephan Ritter
    (Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany)

  Gerhard Rempe
    (Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany)

Coherent dark states, such as electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), can be used to control nonlinear effects for light fields. So far, these phenomena have been studied in media involving a macroscopic number of atoms. In order to scale down these systems to the single quantum level of matter (single atoms) and light (single photons) one has to enhance the matter-light interaction. We report on a new experiment where we use a high finesse optical cavity in which an exactly defined number of atoms can be coupled to the mode of the cavity. We discuss prospects for cavity-based EIT with single atoms and will present its first experimental observation.

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