In this thesis experiments with single atoms in a high-finesse optical cavity are described. An orthogonal arrangement of a pump laser, a standing-wave dipole-force trap and the cavity vacuum gives rise to three-dimensional cooling forces that are used to prepare single atoms in the centre of the cavity mode. The atom-cavity coupling can be adjusted accurately by moving the standing-wave dipole trap. For these experiments, a ew apparatus has been set up in which the atoms are guided from a magneto-optical trap to the cavity by means of a dipole-force trap. There, the captured atoms show temperatures below the Doppler-limit, they are well localised in the mode and show an average lifetime of 17 s. Moreover, the number of trapped atoms can be derived from the measured photon scattering rate.
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In this thesis experiments with single atoms in a high-finesse optical cavity are described. An orthogonal arrangement of a pump laser, a standing-wave dipole-force trap and the cavity vacuum gives rise to three-dimensional cooling forces that are used to prepare single atoms in the centre of the cavity mode. The atom-cavity coupling can be adjusted accurately by moving the standing-wave dipole trap. For these experiments, a ew apparatus has been set up in which the atoms are guided from a magne...
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