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Published October 1, 2004 | public
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Determination of the number of atoms trapped in an optical cavity

Abstract

The number of atoms trapped within the mode of an optical cavity is determined in real time by monitoring the transmission of a weak probe beam. Continuous observation of atom number is accomplished in the strong coupling regime of cavity quantum electrodynamics and functions in concert with a cooling scheme for radial atomic motion. The probe transmission exhibits sudden steps from one plateau to the next in response to the time evolution of the intracavity atom number, from Ngreater than or equal to 3 to N=2-->1-->0 atoms, with some trapping events lasting over 1 s.

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©2004 The American Physical Society. Received 16 March 2004; published 27 September 2004. This work is supported by the Caltech MURI Center for Quantum Networks under ARO Grant No. DAAD19-00-1-0374, by the National Science Foundation, and by the Office of Naval Research.

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