Exploring the World with the Laser: Dedicated to Theodor Hänsch on His 75th Birthday

ISBN-13: 9783319643458 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 812 str.

Dieter Meschede; Thomas Udem; Tilman Esslinger

Opis

This edition contains carefully selected contributions by leading scientists in high-resolution laser spectroscopy, quantum optics and laser physics. Emphasis is given to ultrafast laser phenomena, implemenations of frequency combs, precision spectroscopy and high resolution metrology.

Spis treści

From quantum transitions to electronic motions 

(Mandy Singh, MPI Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany).- 

Nonadiabatic molecular alignment of linear molecules probed by photoelectron ionization yields 

(Hans Schüssler, Texas A&M Univ, USA).- 

Ultracold metastable helium: Ramsey fringes and atom interferometry 

(Wim Vassen, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands).- 

Monolayer graphene as dissipative membrane in an optical resonator 

(Michael Köhl, Univ Cambridge , UK / Univ Bonn, Germany).- 

Cavity ring-up spectroscopy for dissipative and dispersive sensing in a whispering gallery mode resonator 

(Síle Nic Chormaic, Okinawa Univ, Japan).- 

Quantum electrodynamics, high-resolution spectroscopy, and fundamental constants 

(Savely G. Karshenboim, Mendeleev Institute for Metrology, Russia).- 

Yb fiber amplifier at 972.5 nm with frequency quadrupling to 243.1 nm 

(Cory Rasor, Colorado Univ, USA).- 

Absorption spectroscopy of xenon and ethylene-noble gas mixtures at high pressure: Towards Bose-Einstein condensation of vacuum ultraviolet photons 

(Christian Wahl, Univ Bonn, Germany).- 

Ranging with frequency-shifted feedback lasers: from  $\mu$m-range accuracy to MHz-range measurement rate 

(Leonid Yatsenko, Nat. Acad. Sc. Ukraine / Kiew Univ, Ukraine).- 

Laser phase spectroscopy in closed-loop multilevel schemes 

(Ennio Arimondo, Univ Pisa, Italy).- 

Sensitivity and resolution in frequency comb spectroscopy of buffer gas cooled polyatomic molecules 

(Bryan Changala, Nat. Inst. of Standards (NIST) / Colorado Univ, USA).- 

Precision measurements and test of molecular theory in highly-excited vibrational states of H_2 _(v=11) 

(Edcel Salumbides, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands).- 

Quantum regime of a free-electron laser: relativistic approach 

(Peter Kling, Helmholtz-Center, Dresden, Germany).- 

Coherence in laser-driven electrons at and in solid matter 

(Peter Hommelhoff, Univ Erlangen, Germany).- 

Unexpectedly large difference of the electron density at the nucleus in the 4p 2P1/2,3/2 fine-structure doublet of Ca+ 

(Piet O. Schmidt, Inst. Experiment. Quantum Metrology, PTB, Braunschweig, Germany).- 

A 10^15 watt laser for DT Fusion Experiments at Livermore 

(John F. Holzrichter, Lawrence Livermore Nat Lab / Stanford Univ, USA).- 

Extraction of enhanced, ultrashort laser pulses from a passive 10-MHz stack-and-dump cavity 

(Sven Breitkopf, Univ Jena, Germany).- 

Adjacency Graphs and Long-Range Interactions of Atoms in Quasi-Degenerate States: Applied Graph Theory 

(Ulrich Jentschura, Missouri Univ, USA).- 

External Cavity Diode Laser Setup with Two Interference Filters 

(Patrick Baus. Univ Darmstadt, Germany).- 

Phase-stable, multi-µJ femtosecond pulses from a repetition-rate tuneable Ti:Sa-oscillator-seeded Yb-fiber amplifier 

(Tobias Saule, Munich Univ (LMU), Germany).- 

High-precision spectroscopy of the HD+ molecule at the 1-p.p.b. level 

(Jeroen Koelemeij, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands).- 

Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical cavity with sub-recoil bandwidth 

(Andreas Hemmerich, Univ Hamburg, Germany).- 

Ultrafast optomechanical pulse picking 

(Nikolai Lilienfein, Munich Univ (LMU), Germany).- 

Parity-nonconserving interaction induced light shifts in the 7S_{1/2} - 6D_{3/2} transition of the ultracold Fr-210 atoms to probe new physics beyond the standard model 

(Takatoshi Aoki, Univ Tokio, Japan).- 

High-accuracy deep-UV Ramsey-comb spectroscopy in krypton 

(Robert Karl Altmann, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands).- 

Optical Autler-Townes spectroscopy in a heteronuclear mixture of laser-cooled atoms 

(Axel Görlitz, Univ Düsseldorf, Germany).- 

A compact echelle spectrograph for characterization of astro-combs 

(Rafael Andreas Probst, MPI Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany).- 

Measuring and imaging nanomechanical motion with laser light 

(Albert Schliesser, Copenhagen Univ, Denmark).- 

Shifting the phase of a coherent beam with a Yb-174 ion: influence of the scattering cross section 

(Markus Sondermann, MPI Science of Light, Erlangen).- 

Orientational dependence of optically detected magnetic resonance signals in laser-driven atomic magnetometers 

(Simone Colombo, Univ Fribourg, Switzerland).- 

T^3-interferometer for atoms 

(Maxim Efremov, Inst. Quantum Physics, Ulm Univ, Germany).- 

Playing tricks to ions 

(Dietrich Leibfried, Nat. Inst. of Standards (NIST) / Colorado Univ, USA).- 

Frequency-comb based collinear laser spectroscopy of Be for nuclear structure investigations and many-body QED tests 

(Wilfried Nörtershäuser, Univ Darmstadt, Germany).- 

Index.

O autorze

Prof. Dr. Tilman Esslinger

Head of the Quantum Optics Group, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Research area: Quantum gases, quantum simulation, quantum optics

Major scientific accomplishments: first experimental realization of a Fermi-Hubbard model and the Mott insulator using a fermionic quantum gas trapped in an optical lattice, measurement of the critical exponent of the correlation length in a Bose gas, first realization of a one-dimensional atomic quantum gas, cavity QED and cavity opto-mechanics with Bose- Einstein condensates, observation of the Dicke quantum phase transition, optical lattices with Dirac points, realization of the topological Haldane model, observation of quantized conductance in a Fermi gas.

Prof. Dr. Dieter Meschede

Head of Quantum Technology group at University Bonn, Germany

Editor-in-Chief of the journal Applied Physics B – Lasers and Optics,

Research interests: Quantum technologies with single neutral atoms, few-atom quantum systems, discrete-time quantum walks, cavity QED, digital quantum simulators

Prof. Dr. Thomas Udem

Permanent research associate at the Laser spectroscopy division / Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics / Garching and Institute of Physics Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.

Research interests: Ultraprecise laser spectroscopy, Frequency combs in the extreme ultraviolet, High harmonic generation, Atomic physics with ion traps, Precision spectroscopy of single atoms, hydrogen and hoydrogen-like systems, Test of fundamental laws, Search for slowly varying constants, Frequency combs infrared and extreme ultraviolet, Ion traps, Intra-cavity high harmonic generation

Blurb

This edition contains carefully selected contributions by leading scientists in high-resolution laser spectroscopy, quantum optics and laser physics. Emphasis is given to ultrafast laser phenomena, implementations of frequency combs, precision spectroscopy and high resolution metrology. Furthermore, applications of the fundamentals of quantum mechanics are widely covered. This book is dedicated to Nobel prize winner Theodor W. Hänsch on the occasion of his 75th birthday. The contributions are reprinted from a topical collection published in Applied Physics B, 2016.