Cavity QED with high-Q whispering gallery modes

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作者
Vernooy, DW [1 ]
Furusawa, A
Georgiades, NP
Ilchenko, VS
Kimble, HJ
机构
[1] CALTECH, Norman Bridge Lab Phys 12 33, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Dept Phys, Moscow 119899, Russia
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PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1998年 / 57卷 / 04期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.57.R2293
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We report measurements of cavity-QED effects for the radiative coupling of atoms in a dilute vapor to the external evanescent field of a whispering-gallery mode (WGM) in a fused silica microsphere. The high Q (5 x 10(7)), small mode volume (10(-8) cm(3)), and unusual symmetry of the microcavity evanescent field enable velocity-selective interactions between fields with photon number of order unity in the WGM and (N) over bar(T) similar to 1 atoms in the surrounding vapor.
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页码:R2293 / R2296
页数:4
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