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We theoretically analyze the collective dynamics of a thermal beam of atomic dipoles that couple to a single mode when traversing an optical cavity. For this setup we derive a semiclassical model and determine the onset of superradiant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Simon B. Jäger , Haonan Liu , John Cooper , Travis L. Nicholson , Murray J. Holland

We create squeezed light by exploiting the quantum nature of the mechanical interaction between laser light and a membrane mechanical resonator embedded in an optical cavity. The radiation pressure shot noise (fluctuating optical force from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-23 T. P. Purdy , P. -L. Yu , R. W. Peterson , N. S. Kampel , C. A. Regal

The investigation of the ultimate limits imposed by quantum mechanics on amplification represents an important topic both on a fundamental level and from the perspective of potential applications. We propose here a novel setup for an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-04 C. F. Ockeloen-Korppi , T. T. Heikkilä , M. A. Sillanpää , F. Massel

We consider a two-dimensional homogeneous ensemble of cold bosonic atoms loaded inside two optical cavities and pumped by a far-detuned external laser field. We examine the conditions for these atoms to self-organize into triangular and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-08-08 Shabnam Safaei , Christian Miniatura , Benoît Grémaud

We show that the slow driving of a focused laser beam through the cloud of trapped cold fermions allows for a creation of the collective excitation in the system. The method, proposed originally by us for bosons, seems to be quite feasible…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bogdan Damski , Krzysztof Sacha , Jakub Zakrzewski

Orbital degree of freedom plays an important role in understanding exotic phenomena of strongly correlated materials. We study strongly correlated ultracold bosonic gases coupled to a high-finesse cavity, pumped by a blue-detuned laser in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-09-14 Hui Tan , Jinsen Han , Wei Zheng , Jianmin Yuan , Yongqiang Li

Tunable lasers are essential for optical communication, spectroscopy, and precision sensing, where flexible and fast control of the laser wavelength is needed. However, conventional tunable laser systems often rely on mechanical actuation,…

We investigate laser cooling of an ensemble of atoms in an optical cavity. We demonstrate that when atomic dipoles are sychronized in the regime of steady-state superradiance, the motion of the atoms may be subject to a giant frictional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Minghui Xu , Simon B. Jäger , S. Schütz , J. Cooper , Giovanna Morigi , M. J. Holland

We propose and analyze theoretically a cavity optomechanical analog of a heat pump that uses a polariton fluid to cool mechanical modes coupled to a single pre-cooled phonon mode via external modulation of the substrate of the mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-07 Ying Dong , F. Bariani , P. Meystre

Using numerical simulations we show how to realise an optical black hole laser, i.e. an amplifier formed by travelling refractive index perturbations arranged so as to trap light between a white and a black hole horizon. The simulations…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Daniele Faccio , Tal Arane , Marco Lamperti , Ulf Leonhardt

The propagation of a probe laser field in a cavity optomechanical system with a Bose-Einstein condensate is studied. The transmission properties of the system are investigated and it is shown that the group velocity of the probe pulse field…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-02-17 S. Hamide Kazemi , Saeed Ghanbari , Mohammad Mahmoudi

We study the spectra of emission of a system composed by an atom, tightly confined inside a high-finesse resonator, when the atom is driven by a laser and is at steady state of the cooling dynamics induced by laser and cavity field. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marc Bienert , J. Mauricio Torres , Stefano Zippilli , Giovanna Morigi

Gallium phosphide offers an attractive combination of a high refractive index ($n>3$ for vacuum wavelengths up to 4 {\mu}m) and a wide electronic bandgap (2.26 eV), enabling optical cavities with small mode volumes and low two-photon…

We investigate the physics of a gas of ultracold atoms coupled to three single-mode optical cavities and transversely pumped with a laser. Recent work has demonstrated that, for two cavities, the $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ symmetries of each cavity…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-08-22 Ezequiel Rodríguez Chiacchio , Andreas Nunnenkamp

We consider an optomechanical double-ended cavity under the action of a coupling laser and a probe laser in electromagnetically induced transparency configuration. It is shown how the group delay and advance of the probe field can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 Devrim Tarhan , Sumei Huang , Ozgur E. Mustecaplioglu

Strong laser pulses can control superconductivity, inducing non-equilibrium transient pairing by leveraging strong-light matter interaction. Here we demonstrate theoretically that equilibrium ground-state phonon-mediated superconductive…

Theoretical studies of superradiant lasing on optical clock transitions predict a superb frequency accuracy and precision closely tied to the bare atomic linewidth. Such a superradiant laser is also robust against cavity fluctuations when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Anna Bychek , Christoph Hotter , David Plankensteiner , Helmut Ritsch

Transforming a laser beam into a mass flow has been a challenge both scientifically and technologically. Here we report the discovery of a new optofluidics principle and demonstrate the generation of a steady-state water flow by a pulsed…

We propose a scheme to significantly increase quadratic optomechanical couplings of optomechanical systems with the help of a nonlinear medium and two driving lasers. The nonlinear medium is driven by one laser and the optical cavity mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-08 Jian-Song Zhang , Ai-Xi Chen

We present a novel laser mode-locking scheme and discuss its unusual properties and feasibility using a theoretical model. A large set of single-frequency continuous-wave lasers oscillate by amplification in spatially separated gain media.…