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Photonics Research
Vol. 8, Issue 11, 1697 (2020)

Reducing the mode-mismatch noises in atom–light interactions via optimization of the temporal waveform

Xiaotian Feng¹, Zhifei Yu¹, Bing Chen², Shuying Chen¹, Yuan Wu¹, Donghui Fan¹, Chun-Hua Yuan^1、5、*, L. Q. Chen^1、6、*, Z. Y. Ou³, and Weiping Zhang⁴

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¹State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, Quantum Institute for Light and Atoms, Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

²School of Electronic Science and Applied Physics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China

³Department of Physics, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA

⁴School of Physics and Astronomy, and Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

⁵e-mail: chyuan@phy.ecnu.edu.cn

⁶e-mail: lqchen@phy.ecnu.edu.cn

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Xiaotian Feng, Zhifei Yu, Bing Chen, Shuying Chen, Yuan Wu, Donghui Fan, Chun-Hua Yuan, L. Q. Chen, Z. Y. Ou, Weiping Zhang. Reducing the mode-mismatch noises in atom–light interactions via optimization of the temporal waveform[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(11): 1697 Copy Citation Text

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