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Title: | Excitation of a single atom with exponentially rising light pulses | Authors: | Aljunid, S.A. Maslennikov, G. Wang, Y. Dao, H.L. Scarani, V. Kurtsiefer, C. |
Issue Date: | 3-Sep-2013 | Citation: | Aljunid, S.A., Maslennikov, G., Wang, Y., Dao, H.L., Scarani, V., Kurtsiefer, C. (2013-09-03). Excitation of a single atom with exponentially rising light pulses. Physical Review Letters 111 (10) : -. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.103001 | Abstract: | We investigate the interaction between a single atom and optical pulses in a coherent state with a controlled temporal envelope. In a comparison between a rising exponential and a square envelope, we show that the rising exponential envelope leads to a higher excitation probability for fixed low average photon numbers, in accordance with a time-reversed Weisskopf-Wigner model. We characterize the atomic transition dynamics for a wide range of the average photon numbers and are able to saturate the optical transition of a single atom with ≈50 photons in a pulse by a strong focusing technique. © 2013 American Physical Society. | Source Title: | Physical Review Letters | URI: | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/116334 | ISSN: | 00319007 | DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.103001 |
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