Abstract

We develop a temperature measurement of an atomic cloud based on the temporal correlations of fluorescence photons evanescently coupled into an optical nanofiber. We measure the temporal width of the intensity-intensity correlation function due to atomic transit time and use it to determine the most probable atomic velocity, hence the temperature. This technique agrees well with standard time-of-flight temperature measurements. We confirm our results with trajectory simulations.

Publication Details
Publication Type
Journal Article
Year of Publication
2015
Volume
92
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevA.92.013850
Journal
Physical Review A
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