Transmission of near-resonant light through a dense slab of cold atoms

Corman, L.; Ville, J. L.; Saint-Jalm, R.; Aidelsburger, M.; Bienaime, T.; Nascimbene, S.; Dalibard, J. und Beugnon, J. (2017): Transmission of near-resonant light through a dense slab of cold atoms. In: Physical Review A, Bd. 96, Nr. 5, 53629

Abstract

The optical properties of randomly positioned, resonant scatterers is a fundamentally difficult problem to address across a wide range of densities and geometries. We investigate it experimentally using a dense cloud of rubidium atoms probed with near-resonant light. The atoms are confined in a slab geometry with a subwavelength thickness. We probe the optical response of the cloud as its density and hence the strength of the light-induced dipole-dipole interactions are increased. We also describe a theoretical study based on a coupled dipole simulation which is further complemented by a perturbative approach. This model reproduces qualitatively the experimental observation of a saturation of the optical depth, a broadening of the transition, and a blueshift of the resonance.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Physik
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 530 Physik
• ISSN: 2469-9926
• Sprache: Englisch