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Towards a monolithic optical cavity for atom detection and manipulation

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We study a Fabry-Perot cavity formed from a ridge waveguide on a AlGaAs substrate. We experimentally determined the propagation losses in the waveguide at 780 nm, the wavelength of Rb atoms. We have also made a numerical and analytical estimate of the losses induced by the presence of the gap which would allow the interaction of cold atoms with the cavity field. We found that the intrinsic finesse of the gapped cavity can be on the order of F∼30, which, when one takes into account the losses due to mirror transmission, corresponds to a cooperativity parameter for our system C∼1.

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  1. J. Estève

    Present address: LKB, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231, Paris Cedex 05, France

  2. G. Moreau

    Present address: EDF R&D, 6 quai Watier, 78401, Chatou, France

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  1. Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d’Optique, CNRS et Université Paris-sud, Campus Polytechnique, 91127, Palaiseau Cedex, France

    S. Gleyzes, A. El Amili, R. A. Cornelussen, P. Lalanne, C. I. Westbrook & A. Aspect

  2. Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, CNRS, 91460, Marcoussis, France

    J. Estève, G. Moreau, A. Martinez, X. Lafosse, L. Ferlazzo, J. C. Harmand, D. Mailly & A. Ramdane

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Gleyzes, S., El Amili, A., Cornelussen, R. et al. Towards a monolithic optical cavity for atom detection and manipulation. Eur. Phys. J. D 53, 107–111 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2009-00093-9

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