Strong interaction between light and a single trapped atom without the need for a cavity

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 924-927

  Tey, Meng Khoon ^a   Chen, Zilong ^b   Aljunid, Syed Abdullah ^a   Chng, Brenda ^a   Huber, Florian ^c   Maslennikov, Gleb ^a   Kurtsiefer, Christian ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; LIGHT; PHOTONS;

EXTINCTION VALUES; HIGH-FINESSE CAVITY; OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; STRONG ABSORPTIONS; STRONG INTERACTION; TRANSFER INFORMATION;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 57049156542     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1096     Document Type: Article

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