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Optical Shelving: Suppressed Fluorescence

Richard A Mould

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0701098

Abstract

The shelving phenomenon of quantum optics, originally observed by Dehmelt, is analyzed in terms of the qRules that are given in another paper. The heuristic value of these rules is apparent because they not only describe the dark period during shelving, but they reveal the mechanism that enforces the suppression of fluorescence during that time.

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