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  title info:
    title: Cooperative Optical Non-Linearity in a Blockaded Rydberg Ensemble
  name:
    name part: Pritchard, Jonathan D.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 158 p. online resource.
  abstract: This thesis describes the first demonstration of a cooperative optical non-linearity based on Rydberg excitation. Whereas in conventional non-linear optics the non-linearity arises directly from the interaction between light and matter, in a cooperative process it is mediated by dipole-dipole interactions between light-induced excitations. For excitation to high Rydberg states where the electron is only weakly bound, the dipole-dipole interactions are extremely large and long range, enabling an enormous enhancement of the non-linear effect. Consequently, cooperative non-linear optics using Rydberg excitations opens a new era for quantum optics enabling large single photon non-linearity to be accessible in free space for the first time. The thesis describes the theoretical underpinnings of the non- linear effect, the pioneering experimental results and implications for experiments in the single photon regime.
  table of contents: Rydberg Atoms -- Rydberg Atom Interactions -- Atom-Light Interactions -- Cooperative Phenomena -- Experiment Setup -- Results -- Photon Blockade -- Progress Towards a Single Blockade Sphere.
  note: by Jonathan D. Pritchard.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum optics
  subject:
    topic: Optics
  subject:
    topic: Optoelectronics
  subject:
    topic: Plasmons (Physics)
  subject:
    topic: Statistical physics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Optics
  subject:
    topic: Nonlinear Dynamics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Physics
  subject:
    topic: Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices
  classification: QC173.96-174.52
  classification: 535.15
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      title: Springer eBooks
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      title: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research
  identifier: 9783642297120
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29712-0
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    record creation date: 120514
    record change date: 20151204181133.0
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