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Photonic platforms are an excellent setting for quantum technologies because weak photon-environment coupling ensures long coherence times. The second key ingredient for quantum photonics is interactions between photons, which can be…

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Mid-infrared spectral broadening is of great scientific and technological interest, which till date is mainly achieved using non-silica glass fibers, primarily made of tellurite, fluoride and chalcogenide glasses. We investigate broadband…

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We report the unequivocal demonstration of mid-infrared mode-locked pulses from a semiconductor laser. The train of short pulses was generated by actively modulating the current and hence the optical gain in a small section of an…

We demonstrate an efficient cross-phase modulation (XPM) based on a closed-loop double-{\Lambda} system. The property of the double-{\Lambda} medium can be controlled by changing the phases of the applied optical fields. This…

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Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 S. F. Yelin , P. R. Hemmer

We investigate the {\em nonlinearity-assisted quantum tunneling} and formation of nonlinear collective excitations in a matter-wave interferometer, which is realised by the adiabatic transformation of a double-well potential into a…

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We investigate a generalized coupled nonlinear Schrodinger (GCNLS) equation containing Self-Phase Modulation (SPM), Cross-Phase Modulation (XPM) and Four Wave Mixing (FWM) describing the propagation of electromagnetic radiation through an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-03-23 R. Radha , P. S. Vinayagam , K. Porsezian

We propose a scheme to obtain stable nonlinear optical pulses and realize their storage and retrieval in an ultracold ladder-type three-level atomic gas via electromagnetically induced transparency. Based on Maxwell-Bloch equations we…

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Slow light is a regime of reduced group velocity, resulting in increased photon density in optical pulses and enhanced nonlinear effects. Here, we propose the realization of slow light in the regime of strong light-matter interaction…

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We provide theoretical consideration of intersubband transitions designed in the ultrawide bandgap Aluminum Gallium Oxide ((AlxGa1-x)2O3)/Gallium Oxide (Ga2O3)) quantum well system. Conventional material systems have matured into successful…

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A two-dimensional (2D) quantum electron system is characterized by the quantized energy levels, or subbands, in the out-of-plane direction. Populating higher subbands and controlling the inter-subband transitions have wide technological…

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