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The experiments of our group in optical cavity QED are characterized by the strong coupling of a small collection of atoms to a single mode of an optical resonator. Recent progress has led to systems in which the interaction of single atoms and cavity fields with an average photon number \(\bar n \)≪ 1 can be observed. Optical cavity QED thus offers unique possibilities to investigate quantum phenomena of the atom-field dynamics. Examples include nonlinear spectroscopy of the atom-cavity system with sub-photon fields, the generation of arbitrary states of the quantized radiation field, the efficient coupling of an atom to squeezed light and the detection of single atoms with high probability.
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Lange, W., Turchette, Q.A., Hood, C.J., Mabuchi, H., Kimble, H.J. (1996). Optical Cavity QED. In: Rarity, J., Weisbuch, C. (eds) Microcavities and Photonic Bandgaps: Physics and Applications. NATO ASI Series, vol 324. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0313-5_41
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