A one-dimensional ultracold medium of extreme optical depth
Quantum Physics
2014-01-20 v2 Atomic Physics
Optics
Abstract
We report on the preparation of a one-dimensional ultracold medium in a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber, reaching an effective optical depth of 1000(150). We achieved this extreme optical depth by transferring atoms from a magneto-optical trap into a far-detuned optical dipole trap inside the hollow-core fiber, yielding up to 2.5(3)10 atoms inside the core with a loading efficiency of . The preparation of an ultracold medium of such huge optical depth paves the way towards new applications in quantum optics and nonlinear optics.
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@article{arxiv.1311.0635,
title = {A one-dimensional ultracold medium of extreme optical depth},
author = {Frank Blatt and Thomas Halfmann and Thorsten Peters},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.0635},
year = {2014}
}