Observation of Cavity-Enhanced Single-Atom Spontaneous Emission
Abstract
It has been observed that the spontaneous-emission lifetime of Rydberg atoms is shortened by a large ratio when these atoms are crossing a high-Q superconducting cavity tuned to resonance with a millimeter-wave transition between adjacent Rydberg states.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- June 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.1903
- Bibcode:
- 1983PhRvL..50.1903G
- Keywords:
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- Atomic Excitations;
- Cavity Resonators;
- Laser Cavities;
- Rydberg Series;
- Spontaneous Emission;
- Dye Lasers;
- Electron States;
- Electron Transitions;
- Millimeter Waves;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Atomic and Molecular Physics;
- 32.80.-t;
- 32.90.+a;
- 42.50.+q;
- Photon interactions with atoms;
- Other topics in atomic properties and interactions of atoms with photons