From Single Atoms to Engineered “Super-Atoms”: Interfacing Photons and Atoms in Free Space

Figure 11

Polar plot of the angular intensity distributions of light at the distance from the atoms for a lattice of atoms for the cases (a) (More than of the intensity is emitted in the positive -direction within a cone with a half opening angle  rad.), (b) ( rad.), (c) ( rad.), (d) ( rad.), (e) ( rad.), (f) ( rad.). The total angular distribution for lattices (g) ( rad.), and (h) ( rad.) with . The coupling laser parameters are and the single atom detuning of the field is . The figure is from [17].

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