@inproceedings{aff51bdd36ba487a942bc9595d9f94b8,
title = "Design of a trapping potential for detecting single atoms by a microdisk resonator on a chip",
abstract = "We investigate simultaneous optical trapping and optical detection of a single Rb atom near the surface of a toroidal microdisk. Light is coupled into two high-Q whispering-gallery modes of the disk which provide attractive and repulsive potentials, respectively, via their evanescent fields. The sum potential including van-der-Waals and Casimir-Polder surface forces exhibits a minimum at distances of the order of 100 nm from the disk surface. The back-action of an atom held in this trap on the light fields is sufficiently strong to provide a measurable effect, We discuss atom trapping and detection properties in dependence on a variety of system parameters.",
author = "Michael Rosenblit and Yonathan Japha and Peter Horak and Ron Folman",
year = "2006",
month = aug,
day = "9",
doi = "10.1117/12.662290",
language = "English",
isbn = "0819462519",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
booktitle = "Nanophotonics",
note = "Nanophotonics ; Conference date: 03-04-2006 Through 05-04-2006",
}