Photon bandwidth dependence of light-matter interaction
Matthias Steiner, Victor Leong, Mathias Alexander Seidler, Alessandro Ceré, Christian Kurtsiefer · Optics Express · 2017
Rb atom and use the time-resolved transmission to characterize the interaction strength. Decreasing the bandwidth of the single photons from 6 to 2 times the atomic linewidth, we observe an increase in atomic peak excitation and photon scattering probability.