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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Coherent Superradiance by Single Atoms

Junki Kim, Daeho Yang, Seung-hoon Oh, Kyungwon An

Published Jan 1, 2018• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report cavity-mediated coherent single-atom superradiance, where single atoms with predefined correlation traverse a cavity one by one, emitting photons cooperatively with the atoms already gone through the cavity during the cavity field decay time.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2018.fm2h.5

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