Magneto-optical effects with cold lithium atoms
- Author(s)
- S Franke-Arnold, Markus Arndt, Anton Zeilinger
- Abstract
We report measurements of magneto-rotational effects in the coherent forward scattering of light on an ensemble of cold 7Li atoms. The effect of the cold atomic cloud on the polarization state of a probe beam is studied for magnetic fields in the Faraday and Voigt configurations. Magneto-optical effects with cold atoms have the potential to be highly sensitive tools for the spatially and temporally resolved detection of either small atomic ensembles or small magnetic fields.
- Organisation(s)
- External organisation(s)
- University of Strathclyde
- Journal
- Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
- Volume
- 34
- Pages
- 2527-2536
- No. of pages
- 10
- ISSN
- 0953-4075
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/34/12/316
- Publication date
- 2001
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103026 Quantum optics
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/magnetooptical-effects-with-cold-lithium-atoms(48c25371-c3e6-4e1c-ad98-171555ba1c44).html