Optical Lattice in a High Finesse Ring Resonator

B. Nagorny, Th. Elsaesser, H. Richter +4

An optical lattice with rubidium atoms (${}^{85}Rb$) is formed inside a ring resonator with a finesse of $1.8\times 10^5$ and a large mode volume of 1.3 $m{m}^3$. We typically trap se…