Microwave control of the interaction between two optical photons
Atomic Physics
2014-05-27 v3
Abstract
A microwave field is used to control the interaction between pairs of optical photons stored in highly excited collective states (Rydberg polaritons). We show that strong dipole-dipole interactions induced by the microwave field destroy the coherence of polariton modes with more than one Rydberg excitation. Consequently single-polariton modes, which correspond to single stored photons, are preferentially retrieved from the sample. Measurements of the photon statistics of the retrieved light field also reveal non-trivial propagation dynamics of the interacting polaritons.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1308.1425,
title = {Microwave control of the interaction between two optical photons},
author = {D. Maxwell and D. J. Szwer and D. P. Barato and H. Busche and J. D. Pritchard and A. Gauguet and M. P. A. Jones and C. S. Adams},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.1425},
year = {2014}
}
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6 pages, 3 figures