Publications in Scientific Journals:
D. Heine, M. Wilzbach, T. Rauch, Björn Hessmo, H.-J. Schmiedmayer:
"Integrated atom detector: Single atoms and photon statistics";
Physical Review A,
79
(2009),
021804(R);
021804-1
- 021804-4.
English abstract:
We dempnstrate a robust fiber-optics-based fluorescence detector, fully integrated on an atom chip, which detects single atoms propagating in a guide with 66% efficiency. We characterize the detector performance and the atom flux by analyzing the photon statistics. near-perfect photon antibunching proves that single atoms are detected, and allows us to study the second-order intensity correlation function of the fluorescence over three orders of magnitude in atomic density.
"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.79.021804
Electronic version of the publication:
http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_174495.pdf