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We propose an efficient method for mapping and storage of a quantum state of propagating light in atoms. The quantum state of the light pulse is stored in two sublevels of the ground state of a macroscopic atomic ensemble by activating a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. E. Kozhekin , K. Molmer , E. Polzik

We extend a modal theory of diffraction by a set of parallel fibers to deal with the case of a hard boundary: that is a structure made for instance of air-holes inside a dielectric matrix. Numerical examples are given concerning some…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Felbacq , E. Centeno

Friedel's law states that the modulus of the Fourier transform of real functions is centrosymmetric, while the phase is antisymmetric. As a consequence of this, elastic scattering of plane wave photons or electrons within the first-order…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-05 Roeland Juchtmans , Giulio Guzzinati , Jo Verbeeck

Long-lived storage of arbitrary transverse multimodes is important for establishing a high-channel-capacity quantum network. Most of the pioneering works focused on atomic diffusion as the dominant impact on the retrieved pattern in an…

An atom in open space can be detected by means of resonant absorption and reemission of electromagnetic waves, known as resonance fluorescence, which is a fundamental phenomenon of quantum optics. We report on the observation of scattering…

Light propagating in an optically thick sample experiences multiple scattering. It is now known that interferences alter this propagation, leading to an enhanced backscattering, a manifestation of weak localization of light in such diffuse…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Labeyrie , F. de Tomasi , J. -C. Bernard , C. A. Mueller , C. Miniatura , R. Kaiser

A theoretical model describing the Raman scattering process in atomic vapors is constructed. The treatment investigates the low-excitation regime suitable for modern experimental applications. Despite the incorporated decoherence effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-16 Jan Kolodynski , Jan Chwedenczuk , Wojciech Wasilewski

We demonstrate a technique for obtaining the density of atomic vapor, by doing a fit of the resonant absorption spectrum to a density-matrix model. In order to demonstrate the usefulness of the technique, we apply it to absorption in the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-06-15 Harish Ravi , Mangesh Bhattarai , Vasant Natarajan

We demonstrate Babinet's principle by the absorption of high intensity light from dense clouds of ultracold atoms. Images of the diffracted light are directly related to the spatial distribution of atoms. The advantages of employing…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-10-28 Aaron Reinhard , Jean-Félix Riou , Laura A. Zundel , David S. Weiss

The control of atomic motion through laser cooling has revolutionized quantum technologies, enabling applications ranging from quantum computing to precision metrology. However, the spatial spreading of subrecoil-laser-cooled atoms --…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-20 Soma Shiraki , Eli Barkai , Takuma Akimoto

We introduce an absorption imaging technique for ultracold gases that suppresses interference fringes and coherence-induced artifacts by reducing the transverse spatial coherence of the imaging light. The method preserves the narrow…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-02-16 Julia Fekete , Poppy Joshi , Peter Krüger , Fedja Oručević

We consider the motion of a matter-wave bright soliton under the influence of a cloud of thermal particles. In the ideal one-dimensional system, the scattering process of the quasiparticles with the soliton is reflectionless, however, the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Subhasis Sinha , Alexander Yu. Cherny , Dmitry Kovrizhin , Joachim Brand

In coherent X-ray diffraction microscopy the diffraction pattern generated by a sample illuminated with coherent x-rays is recorded, and a computer algorithm recovers the unmeasured phases to synthesize an image. By avoiding the use of a…

We are concerned with the modification of liquid crystalline and polar order in SmC* liquids by illumination. In particular we show that non-uniformity due to absorption and also dynamics, can be complex. The variation of polarization with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-10-17 Milos Knezevic , Mark Warner

Light scattering in dense media is a fundamental problem of many-body physics, which is also relevant for the development of optical devices. In this work we investigate experimentally light propagation in a dense sample of randomly…

We explore the spatial features of various orders of Fraunhofer diffraction patterns in a four-level N-type atomic system. The system interacts with a weak probe light, a standing wave (SW) coupling field in the x-direction, and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Seyyed Hossein Asadpour , Teodora Kirova , Hamid R. Hamedi , Reza Asgari

By using the coherent backscattering interference effect, we investigate experimentally and theoretically how coherent transport of light inside a cold atomic vapour is affected by the residual motion of atomic scatterers. As the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Guillaume Labeyrie , Dominique Delande , Robin Kaiser , Christian Miniatura

Diffusion transformers have shown significant effectiveness in both image and video synthesis at the expense of huge computation costs. To address this problem, feature caching methods have been introduced to accelerate diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Chang Zou , Xuyang Liu , Ting Liu , Siteng Huang , Linfeng Zhang

Light storage, the controlled and reversible mapping of photons onto long-lived states of matter [1], enables memory capability in optical quantum networks [2-6]. Prominent storage media are warm alkali gases due to their strong optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-31 Or Katz , Ofer Firstenberg

In this paper we present a new approach to deblur the effect of atmospheric turbulence in the case of long range imaging. Our method is based on an analytical formulation, the Fried kernel, of the atmosphere modulation transfer function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Jerome Gilles , Stanley Osher