Tuesday, December 18, 2012

1212.3814 (Tobias Kampschulte et al.)

EIT-control of single-atom motion in an optical cavity    [PDF]

Tobias Kampschulte, Wolfgang Alt, Sebastian Manz, Miguel Martinez-Dorantes, René Reimann, Seokchan Yoon, Dieter Meschede, Marc Bienert, Giovanna Morigi
We demonstrate cooling of the motion of a single atom confined by a dipole trap inside a high-finesse optical resonator. Cooling of the vibrational motion results from EIT-like interference in an atomic \Lambda-type configuration, where one transition is strongly coupled to the cavity mode and the other is driven by an external control laser. Good qualitative agreement with the theoretical predictions is found for the explored parameter ranges. The role of the cavity in the cooling dynamics is confirmed by means of a direct comparison with EIT-cooling performed in the dipole trap in free space. These results set the basis to the realization of an efficient photonic interface based on single atoms.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.3814

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