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

Hybrid Quantum Systems Using Optical Nanofibers Integrated with Cold Rubidium Atoms

Síle Nic Chormaic, Alexey Vylegzhanin, Zohreh Shahrabifarahani, Aswathy Raj, Ratnesh Kumar Gupta, Dylan Brown, Jesse L. Everett

Published Jul 31, 2022• 0 citations
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Abstract

We discuss work on the integration of optical nanofibers with cold atoms. We focus on two aspects, one related to Rydberg atom formation mediated by the nanofiber and the other to optimizing atom trapping.
DOI
10.1109/cleo-pr62338.2022.10431958

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