Observation of two-photon decay of Rydberg atoms in a driven cavity. Academic Article

abstract

• Enhanced two-photon decay has been observed for the first time in an electric dipole transition between two Rydberg levels coupled to a single mode of a strongly driven microwave cavity. This was achieved by dynamically suppressing the otherwise dominant single-photon decay. The experiment is compared with a dressed-state model which treats the external driving field exactly. Cavity-induced emission and absorption rates are calculated to fourth order in the interaction to include two-photon processes, and are found to fit the experimental data well. 1996 The American Physical Society.

authors

• Agarwal, Girish

published proceedings

• Phys Rev Lett

author list (cited authors)

• Lange, W., Agarwal, G. S., & Walther, H.

citation count

• 14

complete list of authors

• Lange, W||Agarwal, GS||Walther, H

publication date

• April 1996

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical Review Letters  Journal

keywords

• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5102 Atomic, Molecular And Optical Physics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.3293

start page

• 3293

end page

• 3296

volume

• 76

issue

• 18

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.76.3293