  Single Cesium atoms are cooled and trapped inside a small optical cavity by
way of a novel far-off-resonance dipole-force trap (FORT), with observed
lifetimes of 2 to 3 seconds. Trapped atoms are observed continuously via
transmission of a strongly coupled probe beam, with individual events lasting ~
1 s. The loss of successive atoms from the trap N = 3 -> 2 -> 1 -> 0 is thereby
monitored in real time. Trapping, cooling, and interactions with strong
coupling are enabled by the FORT potential, for which the center-of-mass motion
is only weakly dependent on the atom's internal state.
