Optical imaging of Rydberg atoms
Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2012.
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| author | Mazurenko, Anton |
| author2 | Vladan Vuletić. |
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| description | Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2012. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/785192019-04-10T15:21:08Z Optical imaging of Rydberg atoms Mazurenko, Anton Vladan Vuletić. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics. Physics. Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2012. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-111). We present an experiment exploring electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in Rydberg atoms in order to observe optical nonlinearities at the single photon level. ⁸⁷Rb atoms are trapped and cooled using a magneto-optical trap (MOT) and a far off resonance dipole trap (FORT). Once the system is prepared, a ladder EIT scheme with Rydberg atoms is used to map the photon field onto the ensemble. The powerful dipole interaction between Rydberg atoms allows the system to exhibit many-body quantum mechanical effects. We also describe an imaging method to observe the Rydberg blockade. Last of all, we present a preliminary measurement of EIT in a Rydberg system. In this measurement, the transmission shows sensitivity to the applied photon flux, and exhibits temporal correlations in the photons exiting the EIT medium. by Anton Mazurenko. S.B. 2013-04-12T19:32:01Z 2013-04-12T19:32:01Z 2012 2012 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78519 837286839 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 111 p. application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Physics. Mazurenko, Anton Optical imaging of Rydberg atoms |
| title | Optical imaging of Rydberg atoms |
| title_full | Optical imaging of Rydberg atoms |
| title_fullStr | Optical imaging of Rydberg atoms |
| title_full_unstemmed | Optical imaging of Rydberg atoms |
| title_short | Optical imaging of Rydberg atoms |
| title_sort | optical imaging of rydberg atoms |
| topic | Physics. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78519 |
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