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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Dressed-states spectroscopy for cooled and trapped atoms

Gagik Yu. Kryuchkyan, Suren B. Manvelyan

Published Dec 28, 1999• 0 citations
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Abstract

The resonance fluorescence of a harmonically trapped two- level ion is investigated including effects, which result from the quantized motion. The interaction of a cold trapped ion with a strong laser field is studied in two configurations in which dressed states structure become important, but heating of the ion is unessential.
DOI
10.1117/12.375276

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