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Optical Cavity QED

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The experiments of our group in optical cavity QED are characterized by the strong coupling of a small collection of atoms to a single mode of an optical resonator. Recent progress has led to systems in which the interaction of single atoms and cavity fields with an average photon number n ≪ 1 can be observed. Optical cavity QED thus offers unique possibilities to investigate quantum phenomena of the atom-field dynamics. Examples include nonlinear spectroscopy of the atom-cavity system with sub-photon fields, the generation of arbitrary states of the quantized radiation field, the efficient coupling of an atom to squeezed light and the detection of single atoms with high probability.

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© Kluwer Academic Publishers 1996. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (PHY-9014547) and the U. S. Office of Naval Research (N00014-90-J-1058). W. L. acknowledges a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Fellowship.

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105866
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10.1007/978-94-009-0313-5_41
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N00014-90-J-1058
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

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NATO ASI series E
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324