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Overlapping two standing-waves in a microcavity for a multi-atom photon interface

Francesco Ferri
Jakob Reichel
Romain Long

Abstract

We develop a light-matter interface enabling strong and uniform coupling between a chain of cold atoms and photons of an optical cavity. This interface is a fiber Fabry-Perot cavity, doubly resonant for both the wavelength of the atomic transition and for a geometrically commensurate red-detuned intracavity trapping lattice. Fulfilling the condition of a strong and uniform atom-photon coupling requires optimization of the spatial overlap between the two standing waves in the cavity. In a strong-coupling cavity, where the mode waists and Rayleigh range are small, we derive the expression of the optimal trapping wavelength taking into account the Gouy phase. The main parameter controlling the overlap of the standing waves is the relative phase shift at the reflection on the cavity mirrors between the two wavelengths, for which we derive the optimal value. We have built a microcavity optimized according to these results, employing custom-made mirrors with engineered reflection phase for both wavelengths. We present a method to measure with high precision the relative phase shift at reflection, which allows us to determine the spatial overlap of the two modes in this cavity.
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hal-02850863 , version 1 (07-06-2020)

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Sebastien Garcia, Francesco Ferri, Jakob Reichel, Romain Long. Overlapping two standing-waves in a microcavity for a multi-atom photon interface. Optics Express, 2020, 28 (10), pp.15515. ⟨10.1364/OE.392207⟩. ⟨hal-02850863⟩
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