Authors
Randall G Hulet, Eric S Hilfer, Daniel Kleppner
Publication date
1985/11/11
Journal
Physical review letters
Volume
55
Issue
20
Pages
2137
Publisher
American Physical Society
Description
Spontaneous radiation by an atom in a Rydberg state has been inhibited by use of parallel conducting planes to eliminate the vacuum modes at the transition frequency. Spontaneous emission is observed to" turn off" abruptly at the cutoff frequency of the waveguidelike structure and the natural lifetime is measured to increase by a factor of at least 20.
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RG Hulet, ES Hilfer, D Kleppner - Physical review letters, 1985