Article Abstracts | March 2008
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Fiber Pulling Profits from Precise Positioning
Precise motion control improves manufacturing of fiber optical microresonators.
by Florian Warken and Arno Rauschenbeutel, University of Mainz, and Thomas Bartholomäus,
Newport Spectra-Physics GmbH
The advent of tunable narrowband lasers in the 1970s gave scientists a powerful tool to control and probe atoms and molecules, opening the door to an exciting world of quantum physics. When atoms and molecules are exposed to the intense electromagnetic fields created by laser light, they can be cooled and trapped, becoming prime objects for studying and illustrating interactions between light and matter at the ultimate microscopic level.
Because the propagation of light can be manipulated only through material devices, the control of light and matter interactions at the atomic and quantum levels requires the development and availability of devices that isolate single photons and that significantly enhance their coupling with the atoms...
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