Schematic of an atom emitting light and recoiling in free space and in the vicinity of an optical nanofiber.
When an atom is placed close to the surface of an optical nanofiber, the light it emits and the recoil it experiences are in a well-defined direction along the fiber. Without the nanofiber the emission and the recoil are in random directions.
When an atom is placed close to the surface of an optical nanofiber, the light it emits and the recoil it experiences are in a well-defined direction along the fiber. Without the nanofiber the emission and the recoil are in random directions.
Date:
12 October 2018
Credit:
Light-Matter Interactions Unit-Quantum Systems Unit, OIST.
Copyright OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, 沖縄科学技術大学院大学). Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
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