Volume 93, Issue 12

17 September 2004

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Simplified model of a standing-wave cavity containing a cold atomic gas. When homogeneously excited by a laser, strong coherent emission into the cavity mode and suppression of atomic fluorescence are observed. This is explained by the atoms' stable, regularly spaced configuration; the cavity and the laser fields mutually cancel at the atomic sites so individual atoms are not excited and instead collectively scatter in phase into the cavity mode.

From the article:

Suppression of Bragg Scattering by Collective Interference of Spatially Ordered Atoms with a High- $Q$ Cavity Mode
Stefano Zippilli, Giovanna Morigi, and Helmut Ritsch
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 123002 (2004)

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 123002 (2004) - Published 17 September, 2004

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Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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