Atom localization via phase and amplitude control of the driving field

abstract

• Control of amplitude and phase of the driving field in an atom-field interaction leads towards the strong line narrowing and quenching in the spontaneous emission spectrum. We exploit this fact for the atom localization scheme and achieve a much better spatial resolution in the conditional position probability distribution of the atom. Most importantly the quenching in the spontaneous emission manifests itself in reducing the periodicity in the conditional position probability distribution and hence the uncertainty in a particular position measurement of the single atom by a factor of 2.

authors

• Zubairy, Muhammad

published proceedings

• PHYSICAL REVIEW A

author list (cited authors)

• Ghafoor, F., Qamar, S., & Zubairy, M. S.

citation count

• 131

complete list of authors

• Ghafoor, F||Qamar, S||Zubairy, MS

publication date

• April 2002

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics  Journal

keywords

• Autler-townes Microscopy
• Diffraction
• Moving Atoms
• Optical-fields
• Optics
• Physics
• Precision Position Measurement
• Quantum Nondemolition Measurement
• Resonance-fluorescence
• Single-atom
• Spontaneous Emission

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/PhysRevA.65.043819

URI

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.65.043819

start page

• 043819

volume

• 65

issue

• 4