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most citedAtom interferometry in an optical cavity

108 citations · 315 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

physics.optics2026★ 1 cited

A thermoelastic limit on the focal intensity in Fabry-Pérot cavities

Jeremy J. Axelrod, Lothar Maisenbacher, Ashwin Singh +4

Light in the mode of a Fabry-Pérot cavity heats the mirror surfaces via optical absorption, causing thermoelastic deformation of the mirror substrates, which in turn dictates the s…

physics.optics2026

Ultrahigh continuous-wave intensities in high-NA optical cavities through suppression of the parametric oscillatory instability

L. Maisenbacher, A. Singh, I. M. Pope +1

Ultrahigh continuous-wave intensities (>300 GW/cm) in high-NA optical cavities enable applications from phase-contrast electron microscopy to ultradeep dipole traps for molecul…

physics.atom-ph2026★ 8 cited

Sub-part-per-trillion test of the Standard Model with atomic hydrogen

Lothar Maisenbacher, Vitaly Wirthl, Arthur Matveev +4

Quantum electrodynamics (QED), the first relativistic quantum field theory, describes light-matter interactions at a fundamental level and is one of the pillars of the Standard Mod…

physics.optics2026

Microscopy of Bioelectric Potentials using Electrochromism

Burhan Ahmed, Erica Liu, Lothar Maisenbacher +7

Studying the electrical signals generated by living cells is key to understanding numerous biological phenomena. Electrochromic optical recording (ECORE) uses the electrochromism e…

physics.atom-ph2025

Precision spectroscopy of the 2S-P transitions in atomic hydrogen

Lothar Maisenbacher

Precision spectroscopy of atomic hydrogen is an important way to test bound-state quantum electrodynamics (QED), one of the building blocks of the Standard Model. In its simplest f…

physics.optics2023

Compact Electrochromic Optical Recording of Bioelectric Potentials

Kenneth Nakasone, Chris Zavik, Erica Liu +7

Electrochromic optical recording (ECORE) is a label-free method that utilizes electrochromism to optically detect electrical signals in biological cells with a high signal-to-noise…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 31 cited

Long-distance chronometric leveling with a portable optical clock

J. Grotti, I. Nosske, S. B. Koller +19

We have measured the geopotential difference between two locations separated by by comparison of two optical lattice clocks via an interferometric fiber link, uti…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 8 cited

Dynamics of a buffer-gas-loaded, deep optical trap for molecules

Ashwin Singh, Lothar Maisenbacher, Ziguang Lin +3

We describe an approach to optically trapping small, chemically stable molecules at cryogenic temperatures by buffer-gas loading a deep optical dipole trap. The ~10 K trap depth wi…

physics.optics2019★ 41 cited

A nanoscale vacuum-tube diode triggered by few-cycle laser pulses

Takuya Higuchi, Lothar Maisenbacher, Andreas Liehl +2

We propose and demonstrate a nanoscale vacuum-tube diode triggered by few-cycle near-infrared laser pulses. It represents an ultrafast electronic device based on light fields, expl…

physics.optics2018★ 70 cited

Tracing the phase of focused broadband laser pulses

Dominik Hoff, Michael Krüger, Lothar Maisenbacher +3

Precise knowledge of the behaviour of the phase of light in a focused beam is fundamental to understanding and controlling laser-driven processes. More than a hundred years ago an…

physics.atom-ph2016★ 48 cited

Deuteron charge radius and Rydberg constant from spectroscopy data in atomic deuterium

Randolf Pohl, François Nez, Thomas Udem +11

We give a pedagogical description of the method to extract the charge radii and Rydberg constant from laser spectroscopy in regular hydrogen (H) and deuterium (D) atoms, that is pa…

physics.atom-ph2014★ 108 cited

Atom interferometry in an optical cavity

Paul Hamilton, Matt Jaffe, Justin M. Brown +3

We propose and demonstrate a new scheme for atom interferometry, using light pulses inside an optical cavity as matter wave beamsplitters. The cavity provides power enhancement, sp…