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arXiv:quant-ph/0302098 · Physical Review A

Cold atoms in a high- Q ring cavity

Dietmar Kruse, M. Ruder, Jan Benhelm, C. von Cube, Claus Zimmermann, Ph. W. Courteille, Th. Elsässer, Boris Nagorny, Andreas Hemmerich

Published May 27, 2003• 90 citations
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Abstract

We report the confinement of large clouds of ultracold ${}^{85}\mathrm{Rb}$ atoms in a standing-wave dipole trap formed by the two counterpropagating modes of a high-$Q$ ring cavity. Studying the properties of this trap, we demonstrate loading of higher-order transverse cavity modes and excite recoil-induced resonances.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.67.051802

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