Coupling of atomic quadrupole transitions with resonant surface plasmons
Coupling of atomic quadrupole transitions with resonant surface plasmons
We report on the coupling of an electric quadrupole transition in atomic vapor with plasmonic excitation in a nanostructured metallic metamaterial. The quadrupole transition at 685 nm in the gas of cesium atoms is optically pumped, while the induced ground-state population depletion is probed with light tuned on the strong electric dipole transition at 852 nm. We use selective reflection to resolve the Doppler-free hyperfine structure of cesium atoms. We observe a strong modification of the reflection spectra at the presence of metamaterial and discuss the role of the spatial variation of the surface plasmon polariton on the quadrupole coupling.
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Chan, Eng Aik
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Adamo, Giorgio
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Zheludev, Nikolay I.
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Ducloy, Martial
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Wilkowski, David
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June 2019
Chan, Eng Aik
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Aljunid, Syed Abdullah
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Adamo, Giorgio
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Zheludev, Nikolay I.
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Ducloy, Martial
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Wilkowski, David
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Chan, Eng Aik, Aljunid, Syed Abdullah, Adamo, Giorgio, Zheludev, Nikolay I., Ducloy, Martial and Wilkowski, David
(2019)
Coupling of atomic quadrupole transitions with resonant surface plasmons.
Physical Review A, 99 (6), , [063801].
(doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.99.063801).
Abstract
We report on the coupling of an electric quadrupole transition in atomic vapor with plasmonic excitation in a nanostructured metallic metamaterial. The quadrupole transition at 685 nm in the gas of cesium atoms is optically pumped, while the induced ground-state population depletion is probed with light tuned on the strong electric dipole transition at 852 nm. We use selective reflection to resolve the Doppler-free hyperfine structure of cesium atoms. We observe a strong modification of the reflection spectra at the presence of metamaterial and discuss the role of the spatial variation of the surface plasmon polariton on the quadrupole coupling.
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Coupling of atomic quadrupole transitions with resonant surface plasmons
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Accepted/In Press date: 7 May 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 3 June 2019
Published date: June 2019
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/432368
ISSN: 2469-9926
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Syed Abdullah Aljunid
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Nikolay I. Zheludev
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Martial Ducloy
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David Wilkowski
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