We describe the resonant interaction of an atom with a strongly focused light beam by expanding the field in multipole waves. For a classical field, or when the field is described by a coherent state, we find that both intensity pattern and photon statistics of the scattered light are fully determined by a small set of parameters. One crucial parameter is the overlap of the field with the appropriate dipole wave corresponding to the relevant dipole transition in the atom. We calculate this overlap for a particular set of strongly focused longitudinally polarized light beams, whose spot size is only $0.1λ^2$, as discussed in S. Quabis, et al., Appl. Phys. B {\bf 72}, 109 (2001).
QED-based Optical Bloch Equations without electric dipole approximation: A model for a two-level atom interacting with a monochromatic X-ray laser beam
Programmable activation of quantum emitters in high-purity silicon with focused carbon ion beams
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf(德累斯顿罗森多夫亥姆霍兹中心);Raith GmbH(Raith有限公司);Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ)(莱布尼茨晶体生长研究所);Technical University of Dresden(德累斯顿工业大学)
Addressable Rydberg excitation in arrays of single neutral atoms with a strongly focused flat-top beam
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT)(莫斯科物理技术学院);Russian Quantum Center (RQC)(俄罗斯量子中心);P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute (LPI)(列别捷夫物理研究所);Technical University of Munich(慕尼黑工业大学);Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München(慕尼黑大学);Quantum Technology Centre and Faculty of Physics, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University(莫斯科国立大学量子技术中心与物理学院)