Title | A light-matter interface based on ion Coulomb crystals in an optical cavity |
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Language | English |
File Size | 3.8 MB |
Total Pages | 203 |
Acknowledgements List of publications Contents Introduction Ion Coulomb crystals in a linear Paul trap Principle of a linear Paul trap Laser cooling of 40Ca+ ions The physics of ion Coulomb crystals Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics Optical cavities Two-level atoms interacting with a single cavity field mode The effect of motion Experimental setup Overview The linear Paul trap Laser system Imaging and fluorescence detection systems The optical cavity Overlapping cavity and trap axis Calibration of the trap Probing the cavity Data acquisition Realization of collective strong coupling Introduction The effective number of ions Experimental sequence Absorption profile and resonance shift Vacuum Rabi splitting spectrum Scaling with the number of ions Coherence between collective Zeeman substates Long term stability Conclusion Coupling to different transverse cavity modes Introduction Theoretical expectation Experimental setup Mapping out the transverse cavity mode profiles Effects of the size of the crystal on the cavity coupling Coupling with large crystals Conclusion Noninvasive spectroscopy of vibrational modes Introduction Theoretical model Experimental results Outlook and Applications Conclusion Cavity electromagnetically induced transparency Introduction Three-level atoms in a cavity Experimental setup Experimental results Conclusion All optical switching Introduction Four-level atoms in a cavity Experimental realization Conclusion Summary and Outlook The 40Ca+ ion Transition wavelengths and decay rates Clebsch-Gordan coefficients Zeeman-splitting Rabi frequency Single ion coupling strength Legendre functions EIT: Adiabatic elimination for an intracavity control field Cavity EIT with well localized atoms Bibliography