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.
«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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