Stern-Gerlach effect of multi-component ultraslow optical solitons via electromagnetically induced transparency
Optics
2016-04-19 v1
Abstract
We propose a scheme to exhibit a Stern-Gerlach effect of n-component (n > 2) high-dimensional ultraslow optical solitons in a coherent atomic system with (n + 1)-pod level configuration via electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). Based on Maxwell-Bloch equations, we derive coupled (3+1)-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equations governing the spatial-temporal evolution of n probe-field envelopes. We show that under EIT condition significant deflections of the n components of coupled ultraslow optical solitons can be achieved by using a Stern-Gerlach gradient magnetic field. The stability of the ultraslow optical solitons can be realized by an optical lattice potential contributed from a far-detuned laser field.
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@article{arxiv.1604.05049,
title = {Stern-Gerlach effect of multi-component ultraslow optical solitons via electromagnetically induced transparency},
author = {Zhiming Chen and Guoxiang Huang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.05049},
year = {2016}
}