Raman Imaging of Atoms Inside a High-bandwidth Cavity
Abstract
High-bandwidth, fiber-based optical cavities are a promising building block for future quantum networks. They are used to resonantly couple stationary qubits such as single or multiple atoms with photons routing quantum information into a fiber network at high rates. In high-bandwidth cavities, standard fluorescence imaging on the atom-cavity resonance line for controlling atom positions is impaired since the Purcell effect strongly suppresses all-directional fluorescence. Here, we restore imaging of Rb atoms strongly coupled to such a fiber Fabry-P\'erot cavity by detecting the repumper fluorescence which is generated by continuous and three-dimensional Raman sideband cooling. We have carried out a detailed spectroscopic investigation of the repumper-induced differential light shifts affecting the Raman resonance, dependent on intensity and detuning. Our analysis identifies a compromise regime between imaging signal-to-noise ratio and survival rate, where physical insight into the role of dipole-force fluctuations in the heating dynamics of trapped atoms is gained.
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@article{arxiv.2202.05369,
title = {Raman Imaging of Atoms Inside a High-bandwidth Cavity},
author = {Eduardo Uruñuela and Maximilian Ammenwerth and Pooja Malik and Lukas Ahlheit and Hannes Pfeifer and Wolfgang Alt and Dieter Meschede},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.05369},
year = {2022}
}