Coherent Scattering of Near-Resonant Light by a Dense Microscopic Cold Atomic Cloud
Coherent Scattering of Near-Resonant Light by a Dense Microscopic Cold Atomic Cloud
We measure the coherent scattering of light by a cloud of laser-cooled atoms with a size comparable to the wavelength of light. By interfering a laser beam tuned near an atomic resonance with the field scattered by the atoms we observe a resonance with a red-shift, a broadening, and a …