Laser Spectroscopy: Proceedings of the XVI International Conference, Palm Cove, Queensland, Australia 13-18 July 2003

by Hannaford, Peter; Sidorov, Andrei; Bachor, Hans; Baldwin, Ken; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LASER SPECTR

• ISBN13: 9789812386168
• ISBN10: 9812386165
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

This volume comprises a collection of invited and selected contributions presented at the 16th International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy in Palm Cove, Queensland, Australia, 13-18 July 2003. The papers report the latest and most exciting developments in laser spectroscopy and related areas: new ultraprecise spectroscopic measurements based on optical frequency combs including tests of the stability of the fundamental constants; the first successful production of cold antihydrogen; the first realization of Bose-Einstein condensation in cesium and ytterbium; the behavior of ultracold bosons and fermions in optical lattices; the production of ultra-cold cesium, helium and fermionic lithium molecules; the production and coherent transport of ultra-cold atoms in microtraps on the surface of chips; the implementation of one-and two-quibit quantum algorithms and experiments towards a scalable quantum computer based on trapped ions; and new medical applications of laser spectroscopy.

Table of Contents

Precision Spectroscopy	1	(74)
Laser Frequency Combs and Ultraprecise Spectroscopy	3	(11)
T.W. Hänsch
Optical Clocks with Cold Atoms and Stable Lasers	14	(8)
L. Hollberg, C.W. Oates, G. Wilpers, E.A. Curtis, C.W. Hoyt, S.A. Diddams, A. Bartels and T.M. Raymond
Optical Lattice Clock: Precision Spectroscopy of Neutral Atoms in Tight Confinement	22	(8)
H. Katori and M. Takamoto
A Clock Transition for a Future Optical Frequency Standard with Trapped Atoms	30	(4)
I. Courtillot, A. Quessada, R.P. Kovacich, A. Brusch, D. Kolker, J.-J. Zondy, G.D. Rovera and P. Lemonde
Ultracold Atomic Strontium: From Unconventional Laser Cooling and Future Optical Standards to Photon-Free Anisotropic Many Body Physics	34	(3)
T. Loftus, X.-Y. Xu, T. Ido, M. Boyd, J.L. Hall, A. Gallagher and J. Ye
Ultracold Calcium Atoms for Optical Clocks and Collisional Studies	37	(3)
U. Sterr, C. Degenhardt, H. Stoehr, G. Wilpers, T. Binnewies, F. Riehle, J. Helmcke, Ch. Lisdat and E. Tiemann
Comparison of Two Single-Ion Optical Frequency Standards at the Sub-Hertz Level	40	(9)
Chr. Tamm, T. Schneider and E. Peik
Limits on Temporal Variation of Fine Structure Constant, Quark Masses and Strong Interaction	49	(9)
V.V. Flambaum
Testing the Stability of Fundamental Constants using Atomic Fountains	58	(5)
S. Bize, M. Abgrall, H. Marion, F. Pereira Dos Santos, I. Maksimovic, S. Zhang, Y. Sortais, C. Vian, J. Grünert, L. Cacciapuoti, C. Mandache, Ph. Laurent, P. Lemonde, P. Rosenbusch, G. Santarelli, A. Clairon and C. Salomon
Extending the Optical Comb Synthesizer to the Infrared: From He at 1.083 gm to CO2 at 4.2 gm	63	(5)
P. De Natale, S. Borri, P. Cancio, G. Guisfredi, D. Mazzotti, M. Prevedelli, C. de Mauro and M. Inguscio
Cold Atom Gyroscope for Precision Measurements	68	(3)
F. Leduc, D. Holleville, J. Fils, A. Clairon, N. Dimarcq, A. Landragin, P. Bouyer and Ch. J. Borde
New Optical Tests of Special Relativity	71	(4)
H. Muller, S. Herrmann, C. Braxmaier, A. Peters and S. Schiller
Ultrafast Spectroscopy	75	(26)
Ultra-Precise Phase Control of Short Pulses: Applications to Nonlinear Spectroscopy	77	(8)
J. Ye, L. Chen, R.J. Jones, K. Holman and D.J. Jones
Optimal Control of Molecular Femtochemistry	85	(11)
T. Brixner, G. Krampert, P. Niklaus and G. Gerber
Spectrally Resolved Femtosecond 2-Colour 3-Pulse Photon Echoes for Studies of Molecular Dynamics	96	(5)
L.V. Dao, C.N. Lincoln, R.M. Lowe and P. Hannaford
Quantum Degenerate Gases	101	(94)
Experiments with a Bose-Einstein Condensate of Cesium Atoms	103	(8)
T. Weber, J. Herbig, M. Mark, T. Kraemer, C. Chin, H.-C. Nägerl and R. Grimm
Bose-Einstein Condensation of Ytterbium Atoms	111	(5)
Y. Takahashi, Y. Takasu, K. Maki, K. Komori, T. Takano, K. Honda, A. Yamaguchi, K. Kato, M. Mizoguchi, M. Kumakura and T. Yabuzaki
Momentum Spectroscopy of Phase Fluctuations of an Elongated Bose-Einstein Condensate	116	(8)
A. Aspect, S. Richard, F. Gerbier, M. Hugbart, J. Retter, J.H. Thywissen and P. Bouyer
Experimental Study of a Bose Gas in One Dimension	124	(5)
W.D. Phillips, M. Anderlini, J.H. Huckans, B. Laburthe Tolra, K.M. O'Hara, J.V. Porto and S.L. Rolston
Quantum Degenerate Bosons and Fermions in a 1D Optical Lattice	129	(8)
C. Fort, G. Modugno, F.S. Cataliotti, J. Catani, E. de Mirandes, L. Fallani, F. Ferlaino, M. Modugno, H. Ott, G. Roati and M. Inguscio
Dynamics of a Highly-Degenerate, Strongly-Interacting Fermi Gas	137	(8)
J.E. Thomas, S.L. Hemmer, J.M. Kinast, A.V. Turlapov, M.E. Gehm and K.M. O'Hara
Spectroscopy of Strongly Correlated Cold Atoms	145	(8)
A.J. Daley, P.O. Fedichev, P. Rabi, P. Zoller, A. Recati, J.I. Cirac, J. Von Delft and W. Zwerger
Strong Correlation Effects in Cold Atomic Gases	153	(8)
B. Paredes, G. Metalidis, V. Murg, J.I. Cirac and C. Tejedor
Stochastic Gauge: A New Technique for Quantum Simulations	161	(10)
P. Drummond, P. Deuar, J.F. Corney and K. Kheruntsyan
Growth and Stabilization of Vortex Lattices in a Bose-Einstein Condensate	171	(7)
C.W. Gardiner, A.S. Bradley, A.A. Penckwitt and R.J. Ballagh
A Storage Ring for Bose-Einstein Condensates	178	(3)
C.S. Garvie, E. Riis and A.S. Arnold
Bragg Spectroscopy of an Accelerating Bose-Einstein Condensate	181	(3)
K.J. Challis, R.W. Geursen, R.J. Ballagh and A.C. Wilson
Dispersion Management and Bright Gap Solitons for Atomic Matter Waves	184	(3)
B. Eiermann, Th. Anker, M. Albiez, M. Taglieber, P.Treutlein and M.K. Oberthaler
All-Optical Realization of an Atom Laser Based on Field-Insensitive Bose-Einstein Condensates	187	(4)
G. Cennini, G. Ritt, C. Geckeler and M. Weitz
Dynamical Effects of Back-Coupling on an Atom Laser	191	(4)
N.P. Robins, J.E. Lye, C.S. Fletcher, S.A. Haine, J. Dugue, C. Breme, J.J. Hope and J.D. Close
Cold Molecules and Cold Collisions	195	(26)
Photoassociation Spectroscopy of Ultracold Metastable Helium Atoms: Numerical Analysis	197	(8)
M. Leduc, M. Portier, J. Leonard, M. Walhout, F. Masnou-Seeuws, K. Wilner and A. Mosk
Production of Long-Lived Ultra-Cold Li2 Molecules from a Fermi Gas	205	(7)
J. Cubizolles, T. Bourdel, S.J.J.M.F. Kokkelmans, C. Salomon and G. Shlyapnikov
Feshbach Resonances in Dilute Quantum Gases	212	(9)
M.J. Holland
Atom Optics and Interferometry	221	(36)
Cold Atoms Near Metallic and Dielectric Surfaces	223	(8)
M.P.A. Jones, C.J. Vale, D. Sahagun, B.V. Hall, B.E. Sauer, E.A. Hinds, C.C. Eberlein, F. Furusawa and D. Richardson
Coherent Atomic States in Microtraps	231	(6)
Ph. Treutlein, P. Hommelhoff, T.W. Hänsch and J. Reichel
Atom Optics with Microtraps and Atom Chips: Assembling Tools for Quantum Information Processing	237	(5)
L. Feenstra, K. Brugger, R. Folman, S. Groth, A. Kasper, P. Krüger, X. Luo, S. Schneider, S. Wildermuth and J. Schmiedmayer
On-Chip Laboratory for Bose-Einstein Condensation	242	(6)
J. Fortágh, H. Ott, S. Kraft, A. Günther, C. Trück and C. Zimmermann
Atom Optics and Quantum Information Processing with Atoms in Optical Micro-Structures	248	(5)
M. Volk, T. Müther, F. Scharnberg, A. Lengwenus, R. Dumke, W. Ertmer and G. Birkl
A Controllable Diffraction Grating for Matter Waves	253	(4)
H. Oberst, S. Kasashima, F. Shimizu and V. I. Balykin
Cavity QED	257	(28)
Cavity QED by the Numbers	259	(6)
H.J. Kimble, A. Boca, A.D. Boozer, W.P. Bowen, J.R. Buck, C. W. Chou, L.-M. Duan, A. Kuzmich and J. McKeever
Manipulating Mesoscopic Fields with a Single Atom in a Cavity	265	(8)
S. Haroche, A. Auffeves, P. Maioli, T. Meunier, S. Gleyzes, G. Nogues, M. Brune and J.M. Raimond
Vacuum-Field Mechanical Action on a Single Ion	273	(4)
J. Eschner, P. Bushev, A. Wilson, F. Schmidt-Kaler, C. Becher, C. Raab and R. Blatt
Coupling of Atoms, Surfaces and Fields in Dielectric Nanocavities	277	(8)
G. Dutier, I. Hamdi, P.C.S. Segundo, A. Yarovitski, S. Saltiel, M.-P. Gorza, M. Fichet, D. Bloch, M. Ducloy, D. Sarkisyan,
A. Papoyan and T. Varzhapetyan
Quantum Optics and Quantum Information	285	(58)
Ion Crystals for Quantum Information Processing	287	(8)
F. Schmidt-Kaler, H. Häffner, W. Hänsel, S. Guide, M. Riebe, T. Deuschle, J. Benhelm, G.P.T. Lancaster, J. Eschner, C. Becher, C.F. Roos and R. Blatt
Building Blocks for a Scalable Quantum Information Processor Based on Trapped Ions	295	(9)
D. Leibfried, M.D. Barrett, A. Ben Kish, J. Britton, J. Chiaverini, B. DeMarco, W.M. Itano, B. Jelenkovic, J.D. Jost, C. Langer, D. Lucas, V. Meyer, T. Rosenband, M.A. Rowe, T. Schaetz and D.J. Wineland
Controlled Transport of Single Neutral Atom Qubits	304	(3)
D. Schrader, S. Kuhr, W. Alt, Y. Miroshnychenko, I. Dotsenko, W. Rosenfeld, M. Khuderverdyan, V. Gomer, A. Rauschenbeutel and D. Meschede
Ferreting out the Fluffy Bunnies: Entanglement Constrained by Generalised Super-Selection Rules	307	(8)
H.M. Wiseman, S.D. Bartlett and J.A. Vaccaro
Photon Number Diagram for Characterizing Continuous Variable Entanglement	315	(9)
W.P. Bowen, M.T.L. Hsu, T. Symul, A.M. Lance, B.C. Buchler, R.S. Schnabel, N. Treps, H.-A. Bachor, P.K. Lam and T.C. Ralph
Continuous Variable Teleportation within Stochastic Electrodynamics	324	(10)
H.J. Carmichael and H. Nha
Surpassing the Standard Quantum Limit for High Sensitivity Measurements in Optical Images Using Multimode Non Classical Light	334	(9)
C. Fabre, S. Gigan, A. Maitre, M. Martinelli, N. Treps, U. Andersen, P.K. Lam, W. Bowen, B. Buchler, N. Grosse and H.-A. Bachor
Novel Applications and New Laser Sources	343	(30)
Self-Organization of Atomic Samples in Resonators and Collective Light Forces	345	(8)
A.T. Black, H.W. Chan and V. Vuletic
Photoionization of Cold and Ultracold Rubidium Atoms	353	(9)
M. Anderlini, D. Ciampini, E. Courtade, F. Fuso, O. Morsch, J.H. Müller and E. Arimondo
Superluminal and Ultra-Slow Light Propagation in Room-Temperature Solids	362	(3)
R.W. Boyd, M.S. Bigelow and N.N. Lepeshkin
Abraham's Force on a Highly Dispersive Medium	365	(4)
P.D. Lett and L.J. Wang
Optically Pumped VECSELs for High Resolution Spectroscopy: The New Ti:Sapphire?	369	(4)
R.A. Abram, M. Schmid, E. Riis and A.I. Ferguson
Medical Applications	373	(18)
Seeing Small Biological Structures with Light	375	(8)
G. Popescu, C.M. Fang-Yen, L.P. Deflores, M. Chu, M. Hunter, M. Kalashnikov, K. Badizadegan, C. Boone, R.R. Dasari, M.S. Feld, H. Iwai, V. Backman and G. Stoner
Laser Cardiomagnetometry: Our Hearts Beat for Cesium	383	(8)
R. Wynands, G. Bisen and A. Weis
Author Index	391