Laser-cooled atoms inside a hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber
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Bajcsy, Michal; Hofferberth, Sebastian; Balic, Vlatko; Zibrov, A. S.; Vuletic, Vladan; Lukin, M. D.; Peyronel, Thibault; Liang, Qi-Yu; ... Show more Show less
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We describe the loading of laser-cooled rubidium atoms into a single-mode hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber. Inside the fiber, the atoms are confined by a far-detuned optical trap and probed by a weak resonant beam. We describe different loading methods and compare their trade-offs in terms of implementation complexity and atom-loading efficiency. The most efficient procedure results in loading of ~30,000 rubidium atoms, which creates a medium with an optical depth of ~180 inside the fiber. Compared to our earlier study [1] this represents a sixfold increase in the maximum achieved optical depth in this system.
Date issued
2011-06Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold AtomsJournal
Physical Review A
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American Physical Society
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Bajcsy, M. et al. “Laser-cooled atoms inside a hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber.” Physical Review A 83 (2011). ©2011 American Physical Society.
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1050-2947
1094-1622