Analyzing quantum jumps of one and two atoms strongly coupled to an optical cavity

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Reick, Sebastian ^a   Mølmer, Klaus ^b   Alt, Wolfgang ^a   Eckstein, Martin ^a   Kampschulte, Tobias ^a   Kong, Lingbo ^a,c   Reimann, René ^a   Thobe, Alexander ^a,d   Widera, Artur ^a   Meschede, Dieter ^a  

^a INSTITUT FÜR ANGEWANDTE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPIN DYNAMICS; TELEGRAPH;

ATOMIC MOTION; ATOMIC SPIN; BAYESIAN; CESIUM ATOM; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; HYPERFINE GROUND STATE; HYPERFINE STATE; OPTICAL CAVITIES; PHOTON COUNT; PHOTON-NUMBER DISTRIBUTION; POISSONIAN; QUANTUM JUMPS; RANDOM TELEGRAPH SIGNALS; THRESHOLD ANALYSIS; TIME-DEPENDENT;

ATOMS;

EID: 77955692879     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.00A152     Document Type: Article

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