The three-dimensional localization of a single ion to the LambDicke limit in a radio-frequency trap has been combined with the technique of heterodyne detection to provide high-resolution spectroscopy of the fluorescent light of the ion. A coherent component with a linewidth of 0.7 Hz, corresponding to elastic scattering of the incident laser light, was observed in the heterodyne signal. The method may be extended to observe the narrow sidebands related to the secular motion in the trap, yielding information on the dynamics of the ion. Quantum properties of the fluorescent radiation can be detected by probing higher order field correlations. As an example we investigated the phenomenon of antibunching which appears as intensity anticorrelations of the emitted radiation. A measurement of intensity crosscorrelations of the fluorescent light superimposed with a weak local oscillator is expected to permit the observation of squeezing in the resonance fluorescence of a single ion.
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