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Vacuum Rabi splitting and intracavity dark state in a cavity-atoms system

Optics 2009-11-13 v1 Atomic Physics

Abstract

We report experimental measurements of the transmission spectrum of an optical cavity coupled with cold Rb atoms. We observe the multi-atom vacuum Rabi splitting of a composite cavity and atom system. When a coupling field is applied to the atoms and induces the resonant two-photon Raman transition with the cavity field in a Lamda-type three-level system, we observe a cavity transmission spectrum with two vacuum Rabi sidebands and a central peak representing the intracavity dark state. The central peak linewidth is significantly narrowed by the dark-state resonance and its position is insensitive to the frequency change of the empty cavity.

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@article{arxiv.0706.3649,
  title  = {Vacuum Rabi splitting and intracavity dark state in a cavity-atoms system},
  author = {Gessler Hernandez and Jiepeng Zhang and Yifu Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.3649},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, 4 figures