Sub-micrometric vapor cell : a new tool for spectroscopy and atom-surface interaction

Author

Dutier, C. ; Yarovitski, A. ; Saltiel, S. ; Hamdi, Issam ; Sarkisyan, D. ; Papoyan, A. ; Varzhapetyan, T. ; Bloch, D. ; Ducloy, M.

Author_Institution

Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Universite Paris 13, Villetaneuse, France

fYear

2003

fDate

22-27 June 2003

Firstpage

246

Abstract

The paper presents the prospects offered by this new tool, the extremely thin vapor cells (ETC), for laser spectroscopy and studies of the atom-surface interaction. Transmission in an ETC is presently a tool for the wings spectroscopy of the doublet Cs (6P₃2/→6D), in an attempt to study, at a very short distance from the surface (∼5 nm), possible level crossing effects between the sapphire-repelled Cs(6D₅2/) and the sapphire-attracted Cs(6D₅2/).A general breakthrough promised by the spectroscopic study of atom-surface interaction in an ETC is the fact that it permits to study cavity-QED effects with a 2-wall cavity with atom dipole fluuctuations undergoing multipl reflections.

Keywords

atom-photon collisions; atom-surface impact; caesium; spectroscopic light sources; 2-wall cavity; Cs doublet; atom dipole fluctuations; atom-surface interaction; cavity-QED effects; extremely thin vapor cells; laser spectroscopy; level crossing effects; multiple reflections; submicrometric vapor cell; Absorption; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Atom lasers; Atom optics; Atomic beams; Optical pumping; Reflection; Resonance; Spectroscopy; Transient response;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quantum Electronics Conference, 2003. EQEC '03. European

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7733-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EQEC.2003.1314103

Filename

1314103