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Geometrically asymmetric optical cavity for strong atom-photon coupling

Akio Kawasaki, Boris Braverman, Edwin Pedrozo-Peñafiel, Chi Shu, Simone Colombo, Zeyang Li, Özge Özel, Wenlan Chen, Leonardo Salvi, André Heinz, David Levonian, Daisuke Akamatsu, Yanhong Xiao, and Vladan Vuletić
Phys. Rev. A 99, 013437 – Published 31 January 2019

Abstract

Optical cavities are widely used to enhance the interaction between atoms and light. Typical designs using a geometrically symmetric structure in the near-concentric regime face a tradeoff between mechanical stability and high single-atom cooperativity. To overcome this limitation, we design and implement a geometrically asymmetric standing-wave cavity. This structure, with mirrors of very different radii of curvature, allows strong atom-light coupling while exhibiting good stability against misalignment. We observe effective cooperativities ranging from ηeff=10 to ηeff=0.2 by shifting the location of the atoms in the cavity mode. By loading Yb171 atoms directly from a mirror magneto-optical trap into a one-dimensional optical lattice along the cavity mode, we produce atomic ensembles with collective cooperativities up to Nη=2×104. This system opens a way to preparing spin squeezing for an optical lattice clock and to accessing a range of nonclassical collective states.

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  • Received 17 November 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.99.013437

©2019 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Atomic, Molecular & Optical

Authors & Affiliations

Akio Kawasaki1,*, Boris Braverman1,†, Edwin Pedrozo-Peñafiel1, Chi Shu1,2, Simone Colombo1, Zeyang Li1, Özge Özel1, Wenlan Chen1, Leonardo Salvi1,3, André Heinz1,4,‡, David Levonian1,§, Daisuke Akamatsu1,5, Yanhong Xiao1,6, and Vladan Vuletić1,∥

  • 1Department of Physics, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
  • 2Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
  • 3Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia and LENS - Università di Firenze, INFN - Sezione di Firenze, Via Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
  • 4Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schlossplatz 4, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
  • 5National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8563, Japan
  • 6Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China

  • *akiok@stanford.edu; Present address: W.W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory and Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
  • bbraverm@uottawa.ca; Present address: Department of Physics and Max Planck Centre for Extreme and Quantum Photonics, University of Ottawa, 25 Templeton Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada.
  • Present address: Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Straße 1, 85748 Garching, Germany.
  • §Present address: Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
  • vuletic@mit.edu

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Vol. 99, Iss. 1 — January 2019

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