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We obtain gain of the probe field at multiple frequencies in a closed three-level V-type system using frequency modulated pump field. There is no associated population inversion among the atomic states of the probe transition. We describe…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 Harshawardhan Wanare

We demonstrate optical nonlinearities due to the interaction of weak optical fields with the collective motion of a strongly dispersive ultracold gas. The combination of a recoil-induced resonance (RIR) in the high gain regime and optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Vengalattore , M. Hafezi , M. D. Lukin , M. Prentiss

The propagation of a probe field in an N-type four level cold atomic system is investigated under the influence of multiple coherent fields. Coherent control of quantum interference enables switching of the probe field between transparency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Parkhi Bhardwaj , Poonam Yadav , Bodhaditya Santra , Shubhrangshu Dasgupta

Optical parametric amplification is a second-order nonlinear process whereby an optical signal is amplified by a pump via the generation of an idler field. It is the key ingredient of tunable sources of radiation that play an important role…

Herein, the concept of point of darkness based on polarized light phase difference and absorption of light is demonstrated by simulations using low refractive index and extinction coefficient semiconductor and dielectric, and high…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-17 Ilze Aulika , Martins Zubkins , Jelena Butikova , Juris Purans

We study the directional amplification of an optical probe field in a three-mode optomechanical system, where the mechanical resonator interacts with two linearly-coupled optical cavities and the cavities are driven by strong optical pump…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-31 Yong Li , Y. Y. Huang , X. Z. Zhang , Lin Tian

In this article, we study the optical response of a duplicated two-level atomic medium subjected to a stationary control field and a weak co-propagating probe field, orthogonally polarized to each other. We show that both the reflected and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 F. A. Hashmi , E. Brion , M. A. Bouchene

The advantage of optical bistability (OB) using three-level electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) atomic system over the two-level system is its controllability, as absorption, dispersion, and optical nonlinearity in one of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Juan D. Serna , Amitabh Joshi

We discuss terahertz pump-probe experiments in hBN from the perspective of Floquet optical materials and photonic time crystals. Anisotropic nature of this material results in a large separation of frequencies of in-plane and out-of-plane…

We explore the coherent control of nonlinear absorption of intense laser fields in four-level atomic systems. For instance, in a four-level ladder system, a coupling field creates electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-05 Pardeep Kumar , Shubhrangshu Dasgupta

Multiphoton excitation of a solid by a few-cycle, intense laser pulse forms a very non-equilibrium distribution of charge carriers, where occupation probabilities do not necessarily decrease with energy. We show that, under certain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Muhammad Qasim , Dmitry A. Zimin , Vladislav S. Yakovlev

We study the optical response of a binary system of identical atoms in which one of them is excited by an incoherent pump. %We study the properties of photon scattering, absorption and emission, together with the time evolution of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 L. Acevedo , J. Sánchez-Cánovas , M. Donaire

We revisit the scheme of single-photon weak-coupling optomechanics using post-selection, proposed by Pepper, Ghobadi, Jeffrey, Simon and Bouwmeester [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 023601 (2012)], by analyzing the exact solution of the dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 Gang Li , Tao Wang , He-Shan Song

This Letter demonstrates control over multiphoton absorption processes in driven two-level systems, which include for example superconducting qubits or laser-irradiated graphene, through spectral shaping of the driving pulse. Starting from…

Applying a many mode Floquet formalism for magnetically trapped atoms interacting with a polychromatic rf-field, we predict a large two photon transition probability in the atomic system of cold $^{87}Rb$ atoms. The physical origin of this…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 A. Chakraborty , S. R. Mishra

The propagation of a weak optical pulse through an atomic system in closed $\Lambda$ configuration is investigated in which the hyper fine levels are coupled by a microwave pulse. Under three photon resonance condition, it is observed that…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Rajitha K. V. , Tarak N. Dey

We theoretically analyze and experimentally demonstrate the possibility of amplifying optical signals in an unrepeatered mode-division multiplexed tranmsmission system, through inter-modal stimulated Raman scattering process between signal…

This work models the propagation of an optical pulse in a 4-level atomic system in the electromagnetic induced transparency regime. By demonstrating that linear and nonlinear optical properties can be externally controlled and tailored by a…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-11 Nuno A. Silva , André L. Almeida , A. Guerreiro

A novel two-mode non-degenerate squeezed light is generated based on a four-wave mixing (4WM) process driven by two pump fields crossing at a small angle. By exchanging the roles of the pump beams and the probe and conjugate beams, we have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-21 Xuan-Jian He , Jun Jia , Gao-Feng Jiao , L. Q. Chen , Weiping Zhang , Chun-Hua Yuan

Compression of an intense laser pulse using backward Raman amplification (BRA) in plasma, followed by vacuum focusing to a small spot size, can produce unprecedented ultrarelativistic laser intensities. The plasma density inhomogeneity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Qing Jia , Kenan Qu , Nathaniel J. Fisch