15/07/2017
The Thompson group has figured out how to use magnetic fields to create atomic cowpokes to wrangle a specific single color. The researchers do this with a magnetic field that causes strontium atoms in an optical cavity to stop absorbing light and become transparent to laser light at one specific color. What happens is that the magnetic field creates a transparent window that serves as a gate to let only light of a single frequency pass through.
http://jila.colorado.edu/news-highlights/lassoing-colors-atomic-cowpokes
Published: 07-10-2017 Source: JILA Scientific Communications Experimental setup with strontium atoms in an optical cavity (top) that led to an unexpected peak in the data (below). The center peak in the data showed that for certain strengths of a magnetic field, the atoms and cavity become transpare...
