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View SchemaTime-resolved and state-selective detection of single freely falling atoms
| Authors | Torsten Bondo, Markus Hennrich, Thomas Legero, Gerhard Rempe, Axel Kuhn |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0512006 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0512006 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.optcom.2006.02.057 |
| Journal | Optics Communications 264 (2006) 271-277 |
Abstract
We report on the detection of single, slowly moving Rubidium atoms using laser-induced fluorescence. The atoms move at 3 m/s while they are detected with a time resolution of 60 microseconds. The detection scheme employs a near-resonant laser beam that drives a cycling atomic transition, and a highly efficient mirror setup to focus a large fraction of the fluorescence photons to a photomultiplier tube. It counts on average 20 photons per atom.
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