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We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that linear coupling due to the backscattering between two counterpropagating modes in a Kerr microresonator leads to extreme sensitivity of the intensity asymmetry of nonlinear light states…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-25 Elena A. Anashkina , Alexey V. Andrianov

Nonlinear effects in microresonators are efficient building blocks for all-optical computing and telecom systems. With the latest advances in microfabrication, coupled microresonators are used in a rapidly growing number of applications. In…

Spontaneous symmetry breaking leads to diverse phenomena across the natural sciences, from the Higgs mechanism in particle physics to superconductors and collective animal behavior. In photonic systems, the symmetry of light states can be…

Spontaneous symmetry breaking and formation of self-organized structures in nonlinear systems are intriguing and important phenomena in nature. Advancing such research to new nonlinear optical regimes is of much interest for both…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-19 Zeyun Shi , Weibin Li , Guoxiang Huang

Influence of the self-phase modulation of quantum light on the induced resonant excitation of a semiconductor quantum dot is studied analytically in the case of the Kerr-nonlinearity of the medium. The phase nonlinearity is found to result…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Stepan N. Balybin , Roman V. Zakharov , Olga V. Tikhonova

This paper investigates the interaction dynamics of a four-level tripod-type atomic system coupled to a q-deformed binomial field state within a Kerr-medium. The interaction model incorporates time-dependent coupling parameter and detuning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Sameh T. Korashy

Kerr-effect-induced changes of the polarization state of light are well known in pulsed laser systems. An example is nonlinear polarization rotation, which is critical to the operation of many types of mode-locked lasers. Here, we…

The precise control of nuclear spin states is crucial for a wide range of quantum technology applications. Here, we propose a fast and robust single-qubit gate in $^{87}$Sr, utilizing the concept of optical nuclear electric resonance…

An optical resonator with intracavity Kerr nonlinearity can exhibit dispersive bistability suitable for all-optical switching. With nanophotonic elements it may be possible to achieve attojoule switching energies, which would be very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Hideo Mabuchi

We investigate nonlinear Kerr-induced coherence effect on a superluminal probing light pulse in a gain-assisted N-type 4-level atomic system via an intense monochromatic laser field. The dispersion exhibits a novel, interesting and useful…

Optics · Physics 2013-11-28 Bakht Amin Bacha , Fazal Ghafoor

We analyze the nonlinear optical response of a four-level atomic system driven into a tripod configuration. The large cross-Kerr nonlinearities that occurr in such a system are shown to produce nonlinear phase shift of order $\pi$. Such a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Rebic , D. Vitali , C. Ottaviani , P. Tombesi , M. Artoni , F. Cataliotti , R. Corbalan

The paper provides an analytical and numerical investigation of the dynamics of a one-dimensional chain of coupled optical resonators with conservative cubic nonlinearity and the gain saturated by nonlinear losses. The linear dependency of…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-09 Alexey Verbitskiy , Alexey Yulin

We describe the resonance fluorescence spectrum of an atomic three-level system where two of the states are coupled by a single monochromatic laser field. The influence of the third energy level, which interacts with the two laser-coupled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Joerg Evers , Christoph H. Keitel

In this paper, we study the nonlinear kerr effect in an inverted Y-type five-level atom moving through an open cavity. Under realistic parameters, we show that the kerr-medium affects the atomic population inversion and the phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Sameh T. Korashy , Mohammed A. Saleem , T. M. El-Shahat

We report the observation of a parametric instability in the out-of-equilibrium steady state of two coupled Kerr microresonators coherently driven by a laser. Using a resonant excitation, we drive the system into an unstable regime, where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 N. Carlon Zambon , S. R. K. Rodriguez , A. Lemaitre , A. Harouri , L. Le Gratiet , I. Sagnes , P. St-Jean , S. Ravets , A. Amo , J. Bloch

We study the chirality of ground-state alkali atoms in E and B fields, dressed with a circularly-polarized laser beam close-detuned from an E-field-assisted forbidden transition, such as 7S-8S in Fr. We predict a parity violating energy…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Marie-Anne Bouchiat

Interaction of a two-level atom with a single mode of electromagnetic field including Kerr nonlinearity for the field and intensity-dependent atom-field coupling is discussed. The Hamiltonian for the atom-field system is written in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 S. Sivakumar

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is an important concept in many areas of physics. A fundamentally simple symmetry breaking mechanism in electrodynamics occurs between counter-propagating electromagnetic waves in ring resonators, mediated by…

We predict theoretically and demonstrate experimentally an ellipticity-dependent nonlinear magneto-optic rotation of elliptically-polarized light propagating in a coherent atomic medium. We show that this effect results from a hexadecapole…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. B. Matsko , I. Novikova , M. S. Zubairy , G. R. Welch

We demonstrated stochastic switching in a bistable system implemented with Rydberg atomic ensemble. The transition between the two states of the bistable system is driven by intensity noise of the laser beams. Rydberg atomic ensemble…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Jun He , Xin Wang , Xin Wen , Junmin Wang