TY - JOUR
T1 - Absolute polarization measurement using a vector light shift
AU - Zhu, Kunyan
AU - Solmeyer, Neal
AU - Tang, Cheng
AU - Weiss, David S.
PY - 2013/12/12
Y1 - 2013/12/12
N2 - We have measured the vector light shift due to a cavity built-up optical lattice by using a variation of the Hanle effect with trapped Cs atoms, where the time-evolving population of all magnetic sublevels is measured in situ. The measurement is linearly sensitive to the electric field of the nonlinearly polarized light, which allows unprecedented sensitivity to absolute linear polarization quality, to the level of 10-10 in fractional intensity. Our approach to measuring and improving linear polarization can be applied to electron electric dipole moment searches, optical lattice clocks, magnetometery, and quantum computing.
AB - We have measured the vector light shift due to a cavity built-up optical lattice by using a variation of the Hanle effect with trapped Cs atoms, where the time-evolving population of all magnetic sublevels is measured in situ. The measurement is linearly sensitive to the electric field of the nonlinearly polarized light, which allows unprecedented sensitivity to absolute linear polarization quality, to the level of 10-10 in fractional intensity. Our approach to measuring and improving linear polarization can be applied to electron electric dipole moment searches, optical lattice clocks, magnetometery, and quantum computing.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.243006
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.243006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84890384961
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 111
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
IS - 24
M1 - 243006
ER -