Laser Spectroscopy: Proceedings of the XV International Conference Snowbird, Utah Usa, 10-15 June 2001

by Chu, Steven; Vuleti, Vladan; Kerman, Andrew J.; Chin, Cheng

• ISBN13: 9789810247812
• ISBN10: 9810247818
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

Proceedings of the XV Intl Conference held June 10-15, 2001 in Snowbird, Utah. Brought together spectroscopists from all over the world working in the very diverse and still growing field of laser spectroscopy.

Table of Contents

INVITED TALKS
Quantum Degenerate Gases
Quantum Implosions and Explosions in a 85Rb BEC	3	(9)
C. E. Wieman
E. A. Donley
N. R. Claussen
S. T. Thompson
S. L. Cornish
J. L. Roberts
Bose-Einstein Condensation of Metastable Helium: Some Experimental Aspects	12	(9)
C. I. Westbrook
A. Robert
O. Sirjean
A. Browaeys
D. Boiron
A. Aspect
Coherent Dynamics of Bose-Einstein Condensates in a 1D Optical Lattice	21	(9)
M. Inguscio
S. Burger
F. S. Cataliotti
C. Fort
P. Maddaloni
F. Minardi
6Li and 7Li: Non-Identical Twins	30	(7)
R. G. Hulet
K. E. Strecker
A. G. Truscott
G. B. Partridge
Quantum Degenerate Bosonic and Fermionic Gases: A 7Li Bose-Einstein Condensate Immersed in a 6Li Fermi Sea	37	(9)
C. Salomon
L. Khaykovich
F. Schreck
K. L. Corwin
G. Ferrari
T. Bourdel
J. Cubizolles
Optical Trapping of a Two-Component Fermi Gas	46	(9)
J. E. Thomas
S. R. Granade
M. E. Gehm
M.-S. Chang
K. M. O'hara
Atomic Collisions in Tightly Confined Ultra-Cold Gases	55	(6)
G. V. Shlyapnikov
D. S. Petrov
M. A. Baranov
Nucleation of Vortices in a Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensate	61	(9)
Y. Castin
S. Sinha
Resonance Superfluidity in a Quantum Degenerate Fermi Gas	70	(9)
S. Kokkelmans
M. Holland
R. Walser
M. Chiofalo
Harmonic Potential Traps for Excitons in 3D and 2D	79	(9)
D. W. Snoke
S. Denev
V. Negoita
L. Pfieffer
Precision Measurements
Measuring the Frequency of Light with Ultra Short Pulses	88	(9)
T. W. Hansch
R. Holzwarth
M. Zimmermann
Th. Udem
Coherent Optical Frequency Synthesis and Distribution	97	(9)
J. Ye
J. L. Hall
J. Jost
L.-S. Ma
J. -L. Peng
A Single 199Hg+ Ion Optical Clock	106	(9)
J. C. Bergquist
S. A. Diddams
C. W. Oates
E. A. Curtis
L. Hollberg
R. E. Drullinger
W. M. Itano
D. J. Wineland
Th. Udem
Atomic Clocks and Cold Atom Scattering	115	(9)
K. Gibble
C. Fertig
R. Legere
J. Irfon Rees
S. Kokkelmans
B. J. Verhaar
Continuous Coherent Lyman-α Excitation of Atomic Hydrogen	124	(9)
K. S. E. Eikema
A. Pahl
B. Schatz
J. Walz
T. W. Hansch
A Measurement of the Fine Structure Constant	133	(10)
J. M. Hensley
A. Wicht
E. Sarajlic
S. Chu
Towards Gravitational Wave Astronomy-From Earth and From Space	143	(16)
K. Danzmann
A. Rudiger
Quantum Manipulation
An Interferometer with a Mesoscopic Beam Splitter: An Experiment on Complementarity and Entanglement	159	(9)
J. M. Raimond
P. Bertet
S. Osnaghi
A. Rauschenbeutel
G. Nogues
A. Auffeves
M. Brune
S. Haroche
Cavity QED with Cold Atoms	168	(8)
H. J. Kimble
J. McKeever
Single-Atom Motion in Optical Cavity QED	176	(8)
G. Rempe
T. Fischer
P. Maunz
P. W. H. Pinkse
T. Puppe
Optical Cooling in High-Q Multimode Cavities	184	(9)
H. Ritsch
P. Domokos
P. Horak
M. Gangl
Single-Ions Interfering with their Mirror Images	193	(9)
J. Eschner
C. Raab
P. Bouchev
F. Schmidt-Kaler
R. Blatt
Advantages and Limits to Laser Cooling in Optical Lattices	202	(8)
D. S. Weiss
Coherent Tunneling and Quantum Control in an Optical Double-Well Potential	210	(9)
P. S. Jessen
D. L. Haycock
G. Klose
G. Smith
P. M. Alsing
I. H. Deutsch
J. Grondalski
S. Ghose
Cold Atoms in an Amplitude Modulated Optical Lattice-Dynamcial Tunnelling	219	(9)
W. K. Hensinger
H. Haffner
A. Browaeys
N. R. Heckenberg
K. Helmerson
C. A. Holmes
C. Mckenzie
G. J. Milburn
W. D. Phillips
S. L. Rolston
H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop
B. Upcroft
Photonic Information Storage and Quantum Information Processing in Atomic Ensembles	228	(9)
M. D. Lukin
J. Hager
A. Fleischhauer
A. Mair
D. F. Phillips
R. L. Walsworth
Experimental Evidence of Bosonic Statistics and Dynamic BEC of Exciton Polaritons in GaAs and CdTe Quantum Well Microcavities	237	(11)
Y. Yamamoto
R. Huang
H. Deng
F. Tassone
J. Bleuse
H. Ulmer
R. Andre
Theoretical Aspects of Practical Quantum Key Distribution	248	(16)
N. Lutkenhaus
Biophysics
Diagnosing Invisible Cancer with Tri-Modal Spectroscopy	264	(9)
M. S. Feld
M. G. Muller
I. Georgakoudi
New Advances in Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) Microscopy	273	(5)
J.-X. Cheng
A. Volkmer
L. Book
X. S. Xie
In Vivo Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging of Blood Dynamics in Brain	278	(11)
A. G. Yodh
C. Cheung
J. P. Culver
T. Durduran
J. H. Greenberg
K. Takahashi
D. Furuya
SELECTED PAPERS
Quantum Degenerate Gases
Speedy BEC in a Tiny Trap: Coherent Matter Waves on a Microchip	289	(4)
J. Reichel
W. Hansel
P. Hommelhoff
R. Long
T. Rom
T. Steinmetz
T. W. Hansch
Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Surface Micro Trap	293	(4)
J. Fortagh
H. Ott
G. Schlotterbeck
A. Grossmann
C. Zimmermann
Observation of Irrotational Flow and Vorticity in a Bose-Einstein Condensate	297	(4)
G. Hechenblaikner
E. Hodby
S. A. Hopkins
O. Marago
C. J. Foot
Phase Fluctuations in Elongated 3D-Condensates	301	(4)
P. Ryytty
D. Hellweg
S. Dettmer
J. J. Arlt
W. Ertmer
K. Sengstock
Precision Measurements
Francium Spectroscopy and a Possible Measurement of the Nuclear Anapole Moment	305	(4)
S. Aubin
E. Gomez
J. M. Grossman
L. A. Orozco
M. R. Pearson
G. D. Sprouse
D. P. Demille
Merging Two Independent Femtosecond Lasers into One	309	(4)
L.-S. Ma
R. K. Shelton
H. K. Kapteyn
M. M. Murnane
J. L. Hall
J. Ye
Ferromagnetic Waveguides for Atom Interferometry	313	(4)
W. Rooijakkers
M. Vengalattore
M. Prentiss
Quantum Manipulation
Coherent Manipulation of Cold Atoms in Optical Lattices for a Scalable Quantum Computation System	317	(4)
C. Chin
V. Vuletic
A. J. Kerman
S. Chu
Pump-Probe Spectroscopy and Velocimetry of a Slow Beam of Cold Atoms	321	(4)
G. Di Domenico
G. Mileti
P. Thomann
Ground State Laser Cooling of Trapped Atoms Using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency	325	(4)
J. Eschner
G. Morigi
C. Keitel
C. Roos
D. Leibfreid
A. Mundt
F. Schmidt-Kaler
R. Blatt
Dissociation Dynamics of a H2+ Ionic Beam in Intense Laser Fields-High Resolution of the Fragments' Kinetic Energy	329	(4)
H. Figger
D. Paviac
K. Sandig
T. W. Hansch
Quantum Computation in a One-Dimensional Crystal Lattice with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy	333	(4)
J. R. Goldman
T. D. Ladd
F. Yamaguchi
Y. Yamamoto
E. Abe
K. M. Itoh
Sideband Cooling and Spectroscopy of Strontium Atoms in the Lamb-Dicke Confinement	337	(4)
T. Ido
M. Kuwata-Gonokami
H. Katori
Sympathetic Cooling of Lithium by Laser-Cooled Cesium	341	(4)
S. Kraft
M. Mudrich
K. Singer
R. Grimm
A. Mosk
M. Weidemuller
Deterministic Delivery of a Single Atom	345	(4)
S. Kuhr
W. Alt
D. Schrader
M. Muller
V. Gomer
D. Meschede
Cavity-QED with a Single Trapped 40Ca+-Ion	349	(4)
G. R. Guthohrlein
M. Keller
W. Lange
H. Walther
K. Hayasaka
Triggered Single Photons from a Quantum Dot	353	(4)
C. Santori
M. Pelton
G. S. Solomon
Y. Dale
Y. Yamamoto
``Superluminal'' and Subluminal Propagation of an Optical Pulse in a High-Q Optical Micro-Cavity with A Few Cold Atoms	357	(4)
Y. Shimizu
N. Shiokawa
N. Yamamoto
M. Kozuma
T. Kuga
L. Deng
E. W. Hagley
Narrow-Line Cooling of Calcium	361	(4)
U. Sterr
T. Binnewies
G. Wilpers
F. Riehle
J. Helmcke
Biophysics
mTHPC Fluorescence as a pH-Insensitive Tumor Marker in a Combined Photodynamic Diagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy Treatment of Malignant Brain Tumors	365
M. Ritsch-Marte
A. Zimmermann
H. Kostron