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Radiation trapping in a dense cold Rydberg gas: Supporting data Open Access

Cold atomic gases resonantly excited to Rydberg states can exhibit strong optical nonlinearity at the single photon level. We observe that in such samples radiation trapping leads to an additional mechanism for Rydberg excitation. Conversely we demonstrate that Rydberg excitation provides an in situ probe of the spectral, statistical, temporal, and spatial properties of the trapped rescattered light. We also show that absorption can lead to an excitation saturation that mimics the Rydberg blockade effect. Collective effects due to multiple scattering may coexist with cooperative effects due to long-range interactions between the Rydberg atoms, adding a new dimension to quantum optics experiments with cold Rydberg gases.

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Contributors

Creator: Sadler, Daniel P. ¹
Creator: Bridge, Elizabeth M. ¹
Creator: Boddy, Danielle ¹
Creator: Bounds, Alistair D. ¹
Creator: Keegan, Niamh C. ¹
Creator: Lochead, Graham ¹
Creator: Jones, Matthew P. A. ¹
Contact person: Jones, Matthew P. A. ¹
Creator: Olmos, Beatriz ²

¹ Durham University, UK
² Unicersity of Nottingham, UK

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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Royal Society
Seventh Framework Programme
European Union Horizon 2020 Programme

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Keyword

Rydberg physics
Atomic physics
Multiple scattering
Photon trapping
Strontium

Subject

Physics

Location

Durham, England, United Kingdom

Language

English

Cited in

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.013839
arxiv:1607.07767

Identifier

ark:/32150/dz010q04x
doi:10.15128/dz010q04x

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY)

Publisher

Durham University

Date Created

2017-01-10

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