Optical nonlinear dynamics with cold atoms in a cavity

Preprint

23 January 1998

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.quant-ph/9801054

Abstract

This paper presents the nonlinear dynamics of laser cooled and trapped cesium atoms placed inside an optical cavity and interacting with a probe light beam slightly detuned from the 6S1/2(F=4) to 6P3/2(F=5) transition. The system exhibits very strong bistability and instabilities. The origin of the latter is found to be a competition between optical pumping and non-linearities due to saturation of the optical transition.

Keywords

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS
OPTICAL NONLINEAR
OPTICAL PUMPING
COMPETITION
COLD ATOMS
TRANSITION
LASER

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Version 1, 1998-01-23, ArXiv
Published version: Optics Communications, 115 (1-2), 199.

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