European Quantum Electronics Conference (EQEC)

Normal-mode spectroscopy of a single atom trapped in a cavity

Thomas Puppe, R. Maunz, L. Schuster, Niels Syassen, Pepijn W. H. Pinkse, Gerhard Rempe

Published Jan 18, 2006• 0 citations

Abstract

Taking advantage of cavity cooling, we measure a well-resolved normal-mode splitting of a single trapped atom localised in the strong-coupling region of a high-finesse optical cavity.

DOI: 10.1109/eqec.2005.1567481

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