Photon bandwidth dependence of light-matter interaction

Matthias Steiner, Victor Leong, Mathias A. Seidler, Alessandro Ceré, Christian Kurtsiefer

Optics Express · 2017 · 11 citations · 36 references

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Abstract

Rb atom and use the time-resolved transmission to characterize the interaction strength. Decreasing the bandwidth of the single photons from 6 to 2 times the atomic linewidth, we observe an increase in atomic peak excitation and photon scattering probability.

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