{"id":162898,"date":"2023-04-27T16:22:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T21:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/newly-observed-effect-makes-atoms-transparent-to-certain-frequencies-of-light"},"modified":"2023-04-27T16:22:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T21:22:51","slug":"newly-observed-effect-makes-atoms-transparent-to-certain-frequencies-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/newly-observed-effect-makes-atoms-transparent-to-certain-frequencies-of-light","title":{"rendered":"Newly observed effect makes atoms transparent to certain frequencies of light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newly-observed-effect-makes-atoms-transparent-to-certain-frequencies-of-light3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly discovered phenomenon dubbed \u201ccollectively induced transparency\u201d (CIT) causes groups of atoms to abruptly stop reflecting light at specific frequencies.<\/p>\n<p>CIT was discovered by confining ytterbium atoms inside an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/optical+cavity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">optical cavity <\/a>\u2014essentially, a tiny box for light\u2014and blasting them with a laser. Although the laser\u2019s light will bounce off the atoms up to a point, as the frequency of the light is adjusted, a transparency window appears in which the light simply passes through the cavity unimpeded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe never knew this transparency window existed,\u201d says Caltech\u2019s Andrei Faraon (BS \u201804), William L. Valentine Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, and co-corresponding author of a paper on the discovery that was published on April 26 in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>. \u201cOur research has primarily become a journey to find out why.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly discovered phenomenon dubbed \u201ccollectively induced transparency\u201d (CIT) causes groups of atoms to abruptly stop reflecting light at specific frequencies. CIT was discovered by confining ytterbium atoms inside an optical cavity \u2014essentially, a tiny box for light\u2014and blasting them with a laser. Although the laser\u2019s light will bounce off the atoms up to a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}