This paper presents the nonlinear dynamics of laser cooled and trapped cesium atoms
placed inside an optical cavity and interacting with a probe light beam slightly detuned from …

Laser-cooled and trapped cesium atoms have been used as a nonlinear medium in a nearly
resonant cavity. A study of the semiclassical dynamics of the system was performed …

We observe optical bistability as well as oscillations in the upper bistable branch when cold
ytterbium atoms are dispersively coupled to a high finesse optical cavity. Comparable …

We propose a generic approach to nonresonant laser cooling of atoms and molecules in a
bistable optical cavity. The method exemplifies a photonic version of Sisyphus cooling, in …

We have observed a laser oscillation when a cloud of magneto-optically trapped cesium
atoms is inserted in an optical cavity. The laser oscillation occurs at a frequency which is …

A self-consistent model for the coupled dynamics of cold atoms and near-resonant light
fields is formulated. The model is shown to predict several novel phenomena, including …

We present an experimental study of nonlinear lensing of near-resonant light by a cloud of
laser-cooled rubidium atoms, specifically aimed at understanding the role of the interaction …

We investigate the possibility of all optical trapping and cooling a single atom at the
antinodes of a high Q optical cavity mode to which the atom is strongly coupled. For properly …

Optical bistability and dynamic instability are experimentally observed and studied in a
system consisting of three-level Λ-type rubidium atoms in an optical ring cavity. The bistable …

We experimentally demonstrate an optical bistability between two hyperfine ground states of
trapped, cold atoms, using a single mode of an optical resonator in the collective strong …