Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR)

Efficient Probing Of Few Atom Fluorescence through the Guided Mode of an Optical Nanofiber

K. P. Nayak, Павел Николаевич Мелентьев, M. Morinaga, Fam Le Kien, V. I. Balykin, K. Hakuta

Published Aug 1, 2007• 1 citation

Abstract

We show that fluorescence of a very small number of atoms around a subwavelength-diameter silica-fiber, an optical nanofiber, can be measured efficiently by detecting the photons coupled to the guided mode of the nanofiber. Also such a technique enables us to probe the van der Waals interaction between atoms and surface with high precision.

DOI: 10.1109/cleopr.2007.4391658

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