Advances in atomic, molecular, and optical physics. : Volume sixty eight

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Yelin, Susanne F. (Editor)
Other Authors Dimauro, Louis F. (Editor), Perrin, H. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Academic Press, [2019]
Subjects
Nuclear physics.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN0128175478
9780128175477
012817546X
9780128175460
Physical Description1 online resource (160 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • Chapter One: Collective motion of an atom array under laser illumination
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Outline
  • 2. Atomic equations of motion
  • 2.1. System and Hamiltonian
  • 2.2. Vacuum field as a reservoir
  • 2.3. Dipole-dipole interactions
  • 3. Small-amplitude motion
  • 3.1. The small-amplitude assumption
  • 3.2. Nonsaturated two-level atoms
  • 3.3. Paraxial illumination
  • 3.4. The renormalized atom
  • 4. Coarse-grained dynamics of atomic motion
  • 4.1. Separation of timescales
  • 4.1.1. Coarse-graining time
  • 4.1.2. Doppler effect
  • 4.2. Steady-state solution for internal degrees of freedom
  • 4.2.1. Cooperative linear response
  • 4.3. Atomic motion
  • 4.4. Collective diffusive motion
  • 4.4.1. Relation to single-atom theories
  • 4.4.2. Summary of assumptions and approximations
  • 5. Collective mechanical modes
  • 5.1. Uniform illumination
  • 5.2. Realistic finite-size array
  • 5.3. Focused illumination and gapped modes
  • 5.4. Unstable modes
  • 5.5. Dynamics of the collective modes
  • 6. Example: Heating of the atoms
  • 6.1. Thermalization case
  • 6.2. The effectively frictionless case
  • 7. Discussion
  • Appendices
  • Appendix A. Induced dipole-dipole interactions
  • Appendix B. Coefficients and parameters of Eq. (29)
  • Appendix C. Intuitive derivation of the collective force
  • Appendix D. Atom heating including collective motion
  • D.1. Effective temperature
  • D.2. Average and variance of motion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Chapter Two: Ultrafast and three-dimensional diffractive imaging of isolated molecules with electron pulses
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Time-resolved electron diffraction from gas-phase molecules
  • 1.2. Temporal resolution.
  • 2. Structural dynamics of photoexcited molecules captured with MeV ultrafast electron diffraction
  • 2.1. Experimental setup
  • 2.2. Data analysis: Method and challenges
  • 2.3. Experimental results
  • 3. Three-dimensional structure retrieval from ultrafast electron diffraction of aligned molecules
  • 3.1. Structure retrieval algorithm
  • 3.2. Experimental setup
  • 3.3. Experimental results
  • 4. Outlook
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Chapter Three: Precision interferometry for gravitational wave detection: Current status and future trends
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Interferometry for gravitational wave detection
  • 2.1. Optical configuration
  • 2.2. Fundamental noises and design sensitivity
  • 3. Stabilized high power lasers and conditioning optics for gravitational-wave interferometers
  • 3.1. Frequency stabilization
  • 3.2. Intensity stabilization
  • 3.3. Pointing stabilization
  • 3.4. Stabilized laser design
  • 3.5. Beam conditioning optics
  • 4. GW interferometer optical components
  • 4.1. Mechanical properties/thermal noise
  • 4.2. Optical properties
  • 4.3. GW interferometer optics
  • 4.4. GW interferometer auxiliary optical components
  • 5. GW interferometer vibration isolation systems
  • 5.1. Advanced Virgo test mass seismic isolation
  • 5.2. Advanced LIGO test mass seismic isolation
  • 6. Control systems and detector calibration
  • 6.1. Sensing scheme
  • 6.2. Detector calibration
  • 6.3. Lock acquisition
  • 6.4. Angular control
  • 7. The effects of high laser powers on gravitational-wave interferometers
  • 7.1. Thermal distortions
  • 7.2. Thermal compensation system
  • 7.3. Angular torques due to radiation pressure
  • 7.4. Parametric instabilities
  • 8. Below the standard quantum limit with squeezed states of light
  • 8.1. Quantum noise in a GW interferometer
  • 8.2. Frequency-independent squeezed vacuum.
  • 8.3. Radiation pressure and frequency-dependent squeezing
  • 9. Future directions
  • 10. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Back Cover.

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