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. 2015 Aug 7;115(6):063601.
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.063601. Epub 2015 Aug 5.

Superradiance for Atoms Trapped along a Photonic Crystal Waveguide

A Goban  1   2 , C-L Hung  1   2 , J D Hood  1   2 , S-P Yu  1   2 , J A Muniz  1   2 , O Painter  2   3 , H J Kimble  1   2
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Superradiance for Atoms Trapped along a Photonic Crystal Waveguide

A Goban et al. Phys Rev Lett. .

Abstract

We report observations of superradiance for atoms trapped in the near field of a photonic crystal waveguide (PCW). By fabricating the PCW with a band edge near the D(1) transition of atomic cesium, strong interaction is achieved between trapped atoms and guided-mode photons. Following short-pulse excitation, we record the decay of guided-mode emission and find a superradiant emission rate scaling as Γ̅(SR)∝N̅Γ(1D) for average atom number 0.19≲N̅≲2.6 atoms, where Γ(1D)/Γ'=1.0±0.1 is the peak single-atom radiative decay rate into the PCW guided mode, and Γ' is the radiative decay rate into all the other channels. These advances provide new tools for investigations of photon-mediated atom-atom interactions in the many-body regime.

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