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Frontiers in Optics

Optical Nanofiber Cavity: A Novel Workbench For Cavity-QED

K. P. Nayak, Kiyotaka Nakajima, Fam Le Kien, Hideki T. Miyazaki, Yoshimasa Sugimoto, K. Hakuta

Published Jan 1, 2010• 0 citations
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Abstract

We introduce the experimental realization of optical nanofiber cavity by drilling periodic nano-grooves on a sub-wavelength diameter silica fiber using focused ion beam milling. Due to the strong confinement of the field in the guided mode, such a nanofiber cavity can become a promising workbench for cavity-QED.
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10.1364/fio.2010.ftut5

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