Radiation trapping in a dense cold Rydberg gas
Cold atomic gases resonantly excited to Rydberg states can exhibit strong optical nonlinearity at the single photon level. We observe that in such samples radiation trapping leads to an additional mechanism for Rydberg excitation. Conversely we demonstrate that Rydberg excitation provides a novel in...
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American Physical Society
2017
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41121/ |