Reducing the mode-mismatch noises in atom–light interactions via optimization of the temporal waveform

Xiaotian Feng; Zhifei Yu; Bing Chen; Shuying Chen; Yuan Wu; Donghui Fan; Chun-Hua Yuan; L. Q. Chen; Z. Y. Ou; Weiping Zhang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.400708

Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 11, 1697(2020)

Reducing the mode-mismatch noises in atom–light interactions via optimization of the temporal waveform

Xiaotian Feng¹, Zhifei Yu¹, Bing Chen², Shuying Chen¹, Yuan Wu¹, Donghui Fan¹, Chun-Hua Yuan^1,5、*, L. Q. Chen^1,6、*, Z. Y. Ou³, and Weiping Zhang⁴

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, Quantum Institute for Light and Atoms, Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

²School of Electronic Science and Applied Physics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China

³Department of Physics, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA

⁴School of Physics and Astronomy, and Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

⁵e-mail: chyuan@phy.ecnu.edu.cn

⁶e-mail: lqchen@phy.ecnu.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Quantum Optics

Received: Jun. 22, 2020

Accepted: Sep. 3, 2020

Published Online: Oct. 19, 2020

The Author Email: Chun-Hua Yuan (chyuan@phy.ecnu.edu.cn), L. Q. Chen (lqchen@phy.ecnu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.400708

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