Cooperatively enhanced light transmission in cold atomic matter
Atomic Physics
2014-10-10 v1 Optics
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We report enhanced transmission in measurements of the spectral dependence of forward light scattering by a high-density and cold ensemble of 87Rb atoms. This phenomenon, which is a result of dipole-dipole interaction induced cooperative light scattering in the atomic sample, implies a significant departure from the traditional density dependence of the transmitted light as embodied in the Beer-Lambert Law. Absolute values of the density-dependent forward light scattering cross-section are extracted from the measurements.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1410.2497,
title = {Cooperatively enhanced light transmission in cold atomic matter},
author = {Kasie Kemp and S. J. Roof and M. D. Havey and I. M. Sokolov and D. V. Kupriyanov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.2497},
year = {2014}
}