Principal Investigator Isaac Chuang
The combination of high-finesse optical cavities and ion traps is attractive for quantum light-matter interfaces. In a 4-rod Paul trap, we have demonstrated cavity cooling of a single Sr ion, and ongoing work seeks to improve the efficiency to approach the doppler cooling limit. A more scalable approach to ion-photon interfaces based on a surface electrode ion trap is being developed with the goal of demonstrating coherent light-matter interactions in the framework of CQED.