We study the all-optical time-control of the strong coupling between a single cascade three-level quantum emitter and a microcavity. We find that only specific arrival-times of the control pulses succeed in switching-off the Rabi oscillations. Depending on the arrival times of control pulses, a variety of exotic non-adiabatic cavity quantum electrodynamics effects can be observed. We show that only control pulses with specific arrival times are able to suddenly switch-off and -on first-order coherence of cavity photons, without affecting their strong coupling population dynamics. Such behavior may be understood as a manifestation of quantum complementarity.
@article{arxiv.1010.0684,
title = {All Optical Switch of Vacuum Rabi Oscillations: The Ultrafast Quantum Eraser},
author = {Alessandro Ridolfo and Rocco Vilardi and Omar Di Stefano and Stefano Portolan and Salvatore Savasta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.0684},
year = {2015}
}