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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Cavity QED with multiple atomic excited states

Kevin M. Birnbaum, Tracy E. Northup, H. Jeff. Kimble

Published Jan 1, 2004• 0 citations
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Abstract

We consider cavity QED with single-photon Rabi frequency comparable to the hyperfme splitting of the atom's excited levels.We discuss experimental progress towards relevant measurements.
DOI
10.1364/iqec.2004.ituc6

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