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Physical Review Letters – 17 September 2004
Volume 93, Issue 12

Simplified model of a standing-wave cavity containing a cold atomic gas. When homogeneously excited by a laser, strong coherent emission into the cavity mode and suppression of atomic fluorescence are observed. This is explained by the atoms' stable, regularly spaced configuration; the cavity and the laser fields mutually cancel at the atomic sites so individual atoms are not excited and instead collectively scatter in phase into the cavity mode. [Stefano Zippilli, Giovanna Morigi, and Helmut Ritsch, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 123002 (2004)]

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