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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 53: Poster: Quantum Optics and Photonics III

Q 53.17: Poster

Donnerstag, 9. März 2017, 17:00–19:00, P OG2

Towards the investigation of collective scattering in nanofiber-trapped atomic ensembles — •Adarsh S. Prasad, Jakob Hinney, Samuel Rind, Philipp Schneeweiss, Jürgen Volz, Christoph Clausen, and Arno Rauschenbeutel — TU Wien Atominstitut, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Wien, Austria

We realize an efficient optical interface between guided light and laser-cooled atoms which are arranged in two linear arrays in a two-color evanescent-field dipole trap created around an optical nanofiber [1]. In this configuration, the probability of a nanofiber-guided photon being absorbed and then re-emitted into free space by a trapped atom is as high as 10%. For a periodic array of atoms, interference of the fields scattered by different atoms result in a collective emission into a cone with a well-defined angle with respect to the fiber axis. We plan to study this collective emission and its dependence on various experimental parameters. The next step will be to adjust the periodicity of the atomic array to fulfill the Bragg condition such that fiber-guided light is strongly back-reflected [2]. Here, the interaction between the atomic array and the fiber-guided light depends strongly on the polarization of the light field. In particular, light that is polarized in (orthogonal to) the plane of atoms will be weakly (strongly) reflected. We want to implement such highly reflecting atomic arrays, which could then be used to implement cavity quantum electrodynamics experiments in which the resonator itself is made of quantum emitters.
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