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View SchemaGiant light shift of atoms near optical microstructures
| Authors | Peter Horak, Peter Domokos, Helmut Ritsch |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0108006 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0108006 |
| DOI | 10.1209/epl/i2003-00151-4 |
| Journal | Europhys. Lett. 61, 459 (2003) |
Abstract
Atoms coupled to optical fields confined in one and two spatial dimensions in solid state microstructures can experience very large light shifts if the driving frequencies are close to a resonance of the microstructures and an atomic transition. Using the simple example of a quasi one-dimensional waveguide structure we can analytically calculate the atomic AC Stark shift and the modifications of the light field induced by the presence of the atom. A large enhancement of the effective interaction strength is found due to a non uniform mode density. Experimentally this should be visible by monitoring the scattered light field as well as by the modification of the atomic trajectories bouncing from the evanescent light.
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