Title :
Local observation of the absolute phase of a microwave field
Author :
Cardoso, George C. ; Morzinski, J. ; Pradhan, Prabhakar ; Shahriar, Selim M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA
Abstract :
We describe a new single-atom nonlinear optics experiment based on self-interference between the positive and negative frequency components of a microwave field, where absolute-phase at an atom´s position can be measured in the atomic population.
Keywords :
atomic beams; fluorescence; nonlinear optics; absolute phase; atomic beam; atomic population; atomic position; fluorescence; localized phase mapping; microwave field; negative frequency components; self-interference; single-atom nonlinear optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
