Trapping Single Atoms with Single Photons in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

The following sections are included:

• The Simple One-Atom Maser

• The Two-Photon Maser

• Trapping Single Atoms in a MOT

• Coupling Single Atoms to a High-Finesse Optical Cavity

• Coupling of Single Slow Cesium Atoms to a High-Finesse Optical Cavity

• Cooling an Atom Strongly Coupled to a High-Q Standing Wave Cavity

• Real-Time CQED and Atom Channeling with Single Atoms

• Formation of Giant Quasi-Bound Cold Diatoms by Strong Atom–Cavity Coupling

• Single Atoms Trapped in Orbit by Single Photons

• The Atom Cavity Microscope

• Dynamics of Single Atom Motion in the Field of a Single Photon

• Commentary on CQED in Nature's “News and Views”

• Experimental Realization of a One-Atom Laser in the Regime of Strong Coupling

• Cavity Cooling of a Single Atom

• Deterministic Generation of Single Photons from One Atom Trapped in a Cavity