Group of Vladan Vuletic
Experimental Atomic Physics
Center
for Ultracold Atoms and Research
Laboratory of Electronics
Department of Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vladan Vuletic
Lester Wolfe Associate Professor of Physics
MIT Room 26-231 Location
on MIT campus
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139-4309
phone (617) 324-1174
fax (617) 253-4876
@mit.edu
Adminstrative contact:
Joanna Keseberg, (617) 253-6830 (phone), (617) 253-4876 (fax), j_k@MIT.EDU
Mailing address: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 26-231, Cambridge,
MA 02139-4309
Publications by subject:
Articles for non-specialists
- Heralded Single-Magnon Quantum Memory for Photon Polarization States,
- Viewpoint commentary Physics 2, 62 (2009) PDF.
- Efficient All-Optical Switching Using Slow Light within a Hollow Fiber,
- Viewpoint commentary Physics 2, 41 (2009) PDF;
- News & Views Nature Photonics 3, 429 (2009) PDF.
- Cavity Sideband Cooling of a Single Trapped Ion,
- Editors’ Suggestion, Synopsis (2009) PDF.
- When Superatoms Talk Photons, Vladan Vuletic, Nature Physics 2, 801 (2006) PDF.
- Generating Single Photons on Demand, published in Physics@MIT (2005) PDF.
Cavity quantum electrodynamics, quantum optics, quantum communication
- Trapping and Manipulation of Isolated Atoms Using Nanoscale Plasmonic Structures. D.E. Chang, J.D. Thompson, H. Park, V. Vuletic, A.S. Zibrov, P. Zoller, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 123004 (2009), PDF;
- Heralded Single-Magnon Quantum Memory for Photon Polarization States. Haruka Tanji, Saikat Ghosh, Jonathan Simon, Benjamin Bloom, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 043601 (2009), PDF;
- selected as Editors’ Suggestion, accompanying Viewpoint commentary Physics 2, 62 (2009) PDF.
- Efficient All-Optical Switching Using Slow Light within a Hollow Fiber. M.Bajcsy, S. Hofferberth, V. Balic, T. Peyronel, M. Hafezi, A.S. Zibrov, V. Vuletic, and M. Lukin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 203902 (2009) , PDF;
- selected as Editors’ Suggestion, accompanying Viewpoint commentary Physics 2, 41 (2009) PDF.
- Heralded atomic-ensemble quantum memory for photon polarization states. Jonathan Simon, Haruka Tanji, Saikat Ghosh, Benjamin Bloom, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Scr. T134, 014010 (2009), PDF.
- Crystallization of strongly interacting photons in a nonlinear optical fiber. D.E. Chang, V. Gritsev, G. Morigi, V. Vuletic, M.D. Lukin, and E. Demler, Nature Physics 4, 884 (2008), PDF.
- Single-Photon Bus between Spin-Wave Quantum Memories. Jonathan Simon, Haruka Tanji, Saikat Ghosh, and Vladan Vuletic, Nature Physics 3, 765 (2007), PDF .
- Interfacing Collective Atomic Excitations and Single Photons. Jonathan Simon, Haruka Tanji, James K. Thompson, and V. Vuletic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 183601 (2007), PDF.
- A High-Brightness Source of Narrowband, Identical-Photon Pairs. James K. Thompson, Jonathan Simon, Huanqian Loh, and Vladan Vuletic, Science 313, 74 (2006), PDF, supporting material.
- On-Demand Superradiant Conversion of Atomic Spin Gratings into Single Photons with High Efficiency. Adam T. Black, James K. Thompson, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 133601 (2005), PDF.
New laser cooling methods for atoms, ions or molecules: Cavity cooling and feedback cooling
- Cavity Sideband Cooling of a Single Trapped Ion. David R. Leibrandt, Jaroslaw Labaziewicz, Vladan Vuletic, and Isaac L. Chuang, Phys. Rev. Lett, 103, 103001 (2009) PDF;
Supplementary Information
PDF.
- selected as Editors’ Suggestion, Synopsis here PDF.
External-Feedback Laser Cooling of Gases. Vladan Vuletic, Jonathan Simon, Adam T. Black, and James K. Thompson, Phys. Rev. A. 75, 051405(R) (2007), PDF.
- Collective light forces on atoms in resonators. Adam T. Black, James K. Thompson, and Vladan Vuletic, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 38, (2005) (special issue Einstein year). PDF
- Atomic Samples in Resonators: Forces, Photons, Feedback. James K. Thompson, Adam T. Black, and Vladan Vuletic, in Proceedings of the XIX. International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP 2004, Rio de Janeiro), edited by V. Bagnato, (World Scientific), in press. PDF
- Observation of Collective Friction Forces due to Spatial Self-Organization of Atoms: From Rayleigh to Bragg Scattering. Adam T. Black, Hilton W. Chan, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 203001 (1-4) (2003). PDF
- Self-Organization of Atomic Samples in Resonators and Collective Light Forces. Adam T. Black, Hilton W. Chan, and Vladan Vuletic, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy (ICOLS 2003, Palm Cove), edited by P. Hannaford, A. Sidorov, H. Bachor, and K. Baldwin, pp. 345-352 (World Scientific, Singapore 2004). PDF
- Observation of Collective-Emission-Induced Cooling of Atoms in an Optical Cavity. Hilton W. Chan, Adam T. Black, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 063003 (1-4) (2003). PDF
- Cooling of Cesium Atoms by Collective Emission inside an Optical Resonator. Adam T. Black, Hilton W. Chan, and Vladan Vuletic, in Proceedings of the XVIII. International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP 2002, Boston), edited by H. Sadeghpour, R. Heller, and D. Pritchard, pp. 91-98, (World Scientific, Singapore 2003). PDF
- Cavity Cooling with a Hot Cavity. Vladan Vuletic, in Laser Physics at the Limits, edited by H. Figger, D. Meschede, and C. Zimmermann, pp. 67-74, (Springer 2001). PDF
- Three-dimensional cavity Doppler cooling and cavity sideband cooling. Vladan Vuletic, Hilton W. Chan, and Adam T. Black, Phys. Rev. A 64, 033405 (1-7) (2001). PDF
- Laser Cooling: Beyond optical molasses and beyond closed transitions. Vladan Vuletic, Andrew J. Kerman, Cheng Chin, and Steven Chu, in Proceedings of the XVII. International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP 2000, Florence), edited by E. Arimondo, P. De Natale, and M. Inguscio, pp. 356-366, (American Institute of Physics, Melville, New York 2001). PDF
- Laser Cooling of Atoms, Ions, or Molecules by Coherent Scattering. Vladan Vuletic and Steven Chu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3787 (2000). PDF
Microchip traps for Bose-Einstein condensates or ions
- Observation of Cold Collisions between Trapped Ions and Trapped Atoms. Andrew Grier, Marko Cetina, Fedj Orucevic, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 223201 (2009). PDF
- Bright source of cold ions for surface-electrode traps. Marko Cetina, Andrew Grier, Jonathan Campbell, Isaac Chuang, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. A. 97, 041401(R) (2007). PDF
- Resonator-Aided Single-Atom Detection on a Microfabricated Chip. Igor Teper, Yu-ju Lin, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 023002 (2006). PDF
- Impact of the Casimir-Polder potential and Johnson Noise on Bose-Einstein Condensate Stability near Surfaces. Yu-ju Lin, Igor Teper, Cheng Chin, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 050404 (2004). PDF
- Microscopic Magnetic Quadrupole Trap for Neutral Atoms with Extreme Adiabatic Compression. Vladan Vuletic, Thomas Fischer, Michael Praeger, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Claus Zimmermann, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1634 (1998). PDF
- Steep Magnetic Trap for Ultracold Atoms. Vladan Vuletic, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Claus Zimmermann, Europhys. Lett. 36, 349 (1996). PDF
- Generation of Cylindrically Symmetric Magnetic Fields with Permanent Magnets and µ-Metal. Leo Ricci, Claus Zimmermann, Vladan Vuletic, and Theodor W. Hänsch, Applied Physics B 59, 195 (1994).
Laser cooling: Degenerate Raman sideband cooling
- Laser Cooling: Beyond optical molasses and beyond closed transitions. Vladan Vuletic, Andrew J. Kerman, Cheng Chin, and Steven Chu, in Proceedings of the XVII. International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP 2000, Florence), edited by E. Arimondo, P. De Natale, and M. Inguscio, pp. 356-366, (American Institute of Physics, Melville, New York 2001).PDF
- Beyond Optical Molasses: 3D Raman Sideband Cooling of Atomic Cesium to High Phase-Space Density. Andrew J. Kerman, Vladan Vuletic, Cheng Chin, and Steven Chu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 439 (2000). PDF
- Raman Sideband Cooling in An Optical Lattice. Vladan Vuletic, Andrew J. Kerman, Cheng Chin, and Steven Chu, in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy (ICOLS 1999, Innsbruck), edited by R. Blatt, J. Eschner, D. Leibfried, and F. Schmidt-Kaler, pp. 207-216, (World Scientific, Singapore, 1999). PDF
- Degenerate Raman Sideband Cooling of Trapped Cesium Atoms at Very High Atomic Densities. Vladan Vuletic, Cheng Chin, Andrew J. Kerman, and Steven Chu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5768 (1998). PDF
Cold collisions, Feshbach resonances, molecule formation
- Sensitive Detection of Cold Cesium Molecules Formed on Feshbach Resonances. Cheng Chin, Andrew J. Kerman, Vladan Vuletic, and Steven Chu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 033201 (2003). PDF
- Determination of Cs-Cs Interaction Parameters Using Feshbach Spectroscopy. Andrew J. Kerman, Cheng Chin, Vladan Vuletic, Steven Chu, Paul J. Leo, Carl J. Williams, and Paul S. Julienne, in Proceedings of the Euroconference on Atomic Optics and Interferometry (Cargese 2000). PDF
- High Resolution Feshbach Spectroscopy of Cesium. Cheng Chin, Vladan Vuletic, Andrew J. Kerman and Steven Chu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2717 (2000). PDF
- Accompanying paper: Collision properties of Ultracold Cs Atoms. Paul J. Leo, Carl J. Williams, and Paul S. Julienne, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2721 (2000). PDF
- High precision Feshbach spectroscopy of ultracold cesium collisions. Cheng Chin, Vladan Vuletic, Andrew J. Kerman and Steven Chu, in Proceedings of the XVI. International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Nuclear Physics A (Elsevier Science, Taipeh, 2000). Observation of Low-Field Feshbach Resonances in Collisions of Cesium Atoms. Vladan Vuletic, Andrew J. Kerman, Cheng Chin, and Steven Chu, Phys. Rev. Lett.82, 1406 (1999). PDF
- Suppression of Atomic Radiative Collisions by Tuning the Ground-State Scattering Length. Vladan Vuletic, Cheng Chin, Andrew J. Kerman, and Steven Chu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 943 (1999). PDF
Laser spectroscopy
- Optical Pumping Saturation Effect in Selective Reflection. Vladan Vuletic, Vladimir A. Sautenkov, Claus Zimmermann and Theodor W. Hänsch, Optics Commun. 108, 77 (1994).
- Measurement of Cesium Resonance Line Self-Broadening and Shift with Doppler-free Selective Reflection Spectroscopy. Vladan Vuletic, Vladimir A. Sautenkov, Claus Zimmermann and Theodor W. Hänsch, Optics Commun. 99, 185 (1993).
Laser design
- Influence of grating parameters on the linewidths of external-cavity diode lasers. Huanqian Loh, Yu-ju. Lin, Igor Teper, Marko Cetina, Jonathan Simon, James K. Thompson, and Vladan Vuletic, Applied Optics 45, 9191-9197 (2006). PDF
- A Broad Emitter Diode Laser System for Lithium Spectroscopy. Michael Praeger, Vladan Vuletic, Thomas Fischer, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Claus Zimmermann, Applied Physics B67, 163 (1998). PDF
- Bichromatic Frequency Conversion in Potassium Niobate. Alexander Hohla, Vladan Vuletic, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Claus Zimmermann, Optics Lett. 23, 436-438 (1998). PDF
- A Compact Grating-Stabilized Diode Laser System for Atomic Physics. Leo Ricci, Matthias Weidemüller, Tilman Esslinger, Andreas Hemmerich, Claus Zimmermann, Vladan Vuletic, Wolfgang König, and Theodor W. Hänsch, Optics Commun. 117, 541 (1995).
- All Solid State Laser Source for Tunable Blue and Ultraviolet Radiation. Claus Zimmermann, Vladan Vuletic, Andreas Hemmerich, and Theodor W. Hänsch, Appl. Phys. Lett. 66, 2318 (1995). PDF
- Design for a Compact Tunable Ti:Sapphire Laser. Claus Zimmermann, Vladan Vuletic, Andreas Hemmerich, Leo Ricci, and Theodor W. Hänsch, Optics Lett. 20, 297 (1995). PDF
Other subjects
- Measurement of An Electron's Electric Dipole Moment Using Cesium Atoms Trapped in Optical Lattices. Cheng Chin, Veronique Leiber, Vladan Vuletic, Andrew J. Kerman and Steven Chu, Phys. Rev. A. 63, 033401 (2001). PDF