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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

The effects of light-shift and temporal evolution on collective Rydberg excitations

Nithiwadee Thaicharoen, Andrew Schwarzkopf, David Alexander Anderson, Georg A. Raithel

Published Jun 6, 2014• 0 citations
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Cold atomic gases resonantly excited to Rydberg states can exhibit strong optical nonlinearity at the single-photon level. We observe that in such samples radiation trapping leads to an additional mechanism for Rydberg excitation. Conversely we demonstrate that Rydberg excitation provides an in situ probe of the spectral, statistical, temporal, and spatial properties of the trapped rescattered light. We also show that absorption can lead to an excitation saturation that mimics the Rydberg blockade effect. Collective effects due to multiple scattering may coexist with cooperative effects due to long-range interactions between the Rydberg atoms, adding a new dimension to quantum optics experiments with cold Rydberg gases.