Atom-Photon Interactions

这个项目是研究光驱动原子暴露在扰动电磁模式密度下的动力学和光谱。它涉及电磁模密度扰动特别强的空腔的设计和构造。光捕获技术将用于消除对光腔或其活动区域大小的传输时间限制。由于受激原子动力学的根本变化可能发生在扰动电磁模式密度的存在下，目前的研究可能导致光学器件在迄今为止无法达到的状态下运行。这项工作的第二个目标将是研究自由空间原子对复杂（例如双色）激发场的响应。

This project is a study of the dynamics and spectra of optically driven atoms in the case that they are exposed to a perturbed electromagnetic mode density. It involves the design and construction of cavities whose perturbation of the electromagnetic mode density is particularly strong. Optical trapping techniques will be employed to eliminate transit-time limitations on the size of optical cavities or their active regions. Owing to the fundamental changes in driven atom dynamics that can occur in the presence of a perturbed electromagnetic mode density, the present studies may lead to the operation of optical devices in hitherto unaccessible regimes. A secondary objective of this work will be to investigate the response of free-space atoms to complex, for example bichromatic, excitation fields.