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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 55: Poster II

Q 55.66: Poster

Thursday, March 11, 2010, 16:00–19:00, Lichthof

Cavity-EIT with single atoms — •Martin Mücke, Eden Figueroa, Joerg Bochmann, Carolin Hahn, Celso Jorge Villas-Boas, Stephan Ritter, and Gerhard Rempe — Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, 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 [1]. 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.

[1] M. Fleischhauer, A. Imamoglu and J.P. Marangos, Rev. Mod. Phys. 77, 633 (2005)