Atoms (IMAGE)

U.S. Army Research Laboratory

Atoms

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Atoms in a glass vapor cell are excited with laser beams to Rydberg states. They detect the electric fields (coming from the gold antenna in the background) and imprint the information back onto the laser beams.

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U.S. Army photo

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