Simple integrated single-atom detector

Optics Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 259-261

  Wilzbach, Marco ^a,b   Heine, Dennis ^a,b   Groth, Sönke ^a   Liu, Xiyuan ^c   Raub, Thomas ^a,b   Hessmo, Björn ^a,b   Schmiedmayer, Jörg ^a,b  

^a TU WIEN   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; MULTIMODE FIBERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

ATOM CHIPS; EXCITATION LIGHT; FLUORESCENCE DETECTOR; SINGLE ATOMS;

ATOMS;

EID: 59249092664     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.34.000259     Document Type: Article

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