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  • Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1996),
  • paper QWK2

Quantum Rabi nutation in vacuum and coherent fields: A direct test of field quantization in a cavity

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Abstract

One of the simplest cavity QED effects is the Rabi nutation of a single atom coupled to the vacuum or to a coherent field in a cavity mode.1 The signal, which appears as a sum of contributions at frequencies proportional to the square roots of successive integers, is expected to reveal directly the quantization of the field, the beating between incommensurate frequencies producing the well-known "collapse and revivals" phenomenon. In addition, the weights of the various frequency components should yield the photon number probability distribution. Although it has been extensively analyzed, this basic phenomenon has never been observed. Field and atomic relaxation phenomena, as well as the alteration of the cavity field by atomic emission (micromaser effect2) have so far complicated the experimental situation.

© 1996 Optical Society of America

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