Speaker
Yannick Weiser
(University of Innsbruck)
Description
We study fundamental effects of spontaneous emission with a mirror, which is used to couple a Ba$^+$ ion with its retroreflected fluorescence light. This back-reflected fluorescence induces a mechanical effect on the ion's motion, varying sinusoidal with the ion-mirror distance resulting in a force.
We present a method to control this force to study the effect of back-reflected light on the ion's dynamics. For control of the force an electro-optical modulator is introduced between ion and mirror to adjust the optical length and, effectively, the ion-mirror distance allowing to control the force felt by the ion. We will use the force to drive the ion motion at the trapping frequency.
Authors
Giovanni Cerchiari
(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE))
Rainer Blatt
(University Innsbruck)
Yannick Weiser
(University of Innsbruck)
