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International conference on fiber optics and photonics

Detection of cold dilute gases with cavities

S. A. Rangwala

Published Jan 1, 2012• 0 citations
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Abstract

Cold dilute gas mixtures with small numbers of atoms, ions and molecules are created in specially designed experiments. Detection of the various species, using high finesse optical cavities is explored and experimental results are presented.
DOI
10.1364/photonics.2012.w3c.1

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