Low-intensity light switching of cavity-atom polaritons
Optics
2010-03-23 v2 Atomic and Molecular Clusters
Abstract
I analyze an all-optical switching scheme in a cavity QED system consisting of multiple three-level atoms confined in a cavity mode. A control laser coupled to the atoms from free space induces quantum interference in the coupled cavity-atom system and performs all optical switching of the cavity-atom polaritons. When the cavity is tuned far away from the atomic resonance, the cavity-atom polariton consists of nearly pure photonic excitation and then the scheme can be used for photon switching at low light intensities.
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@article{arxiv.1002.0785,
title = {Low-intensity light switching of cavity-atom polaritons},
author = {Yifu Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.0785},
year = {2010}
}
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16 pages, 6 figures