Abstract
The use of laser-cooling techniques in optical cavity QED1 effects a dramatic separation of dynamical timescales, with the coherent interaction rate g0 dominating over both the cavity field decay rate κ and the atomic dipole decay rate γ⊥, which are in turn much larger than rates T-1 associated with atomic motion through the spatially varying cavity eigenmode. Below we describe two separate ongoing experiments that explore phenomena uniquely accessible in this regime of true coupling.
© 1998 Optical Society of America
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