Subwavelength Localization of Atomic Excitation Using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

We report an experiment in which an atomic excitation is localized to a spatial width that is a factor of 8 smaller than the wavelength of the incident light. The experiment utilizes the sensitivity of the dark state of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) to the intensity of the coupling...

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Main Authors: J. A. Miles, Z. J. Simmons, D. D. Yavuz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2013-09-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.3.031014