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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

We study the propagation of a quantum probe light in an ensemble of "3+1"-level atoms when the atoms are coupled to two other classical control fields. First we calculate the dispersion properties, such as susceptibility and group velocity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Yong Li , C. P. Sun

Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have shown promise in deep tissue imaging, medical diagnostics, and optical communication due to their robust propagation properties through scattering media. However, an…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-22 Atharva Paranjape , Shyamal Guchhait , Athira B S , Nirmalya Ghosh

Anomalous dispersion cannot occur in a transparent passive medium where electromagnetic radiation is being absorbed at all frequencies, as pointed out by Landau and Lifshitz. Here we show, both theoretically and experimentally, that…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Dogariu , A. Kuzmich , L. J. Wang

We investigate the dispersion and the absorption properties of a weak probe field in a three-level pump-probe atomic system. It is shown that the slope of dispersion changes from positive to negative just with the intensity of the coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-20 M. Mahmoudi , S. Worya Rabiei , L. Ebrahimi Zohravi , M. Sahrai

We investigate the spatio-temporal evolution of a Gaussian probe pulse propagating through a four-level $N$-type atomic medium. At two-photon resonance of probe-and control fields, weaker probe pulses may propagate through the medium with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Rajitha K. V. , Tarak N. Dey , Jörg Evers , Martin Kiffner

Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) modes are solutions of the paraxial Helmholtz equation in cylindrical coordinates and are associated with light fields carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM). It is customary to modulate such beams using phase-only…

We show theoretically the presence of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) like feature in a {\Lambda}-type atom-molecule coupled system. We demonstrate that EIT in such a systems has a sharp dispersion characteristic which is…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-23 Sandeep Sharma , Bimalendu Deb , Tarak N. Dey

When generating light with orbital angular momentum by imprinting orbital phase onto a standard Gaussian beam, it is often assumed that the propagation of the generated spatial mode is a Laguerre-Gaussian. However, the true propagation of…

We present a theoretical analysis of the propagation of light pulses through a medium of four-level atoms, with two strong pump fields and a weak signal field in an N-scheme arrangement. We show that the generation of four-wave mixing has a…

Nonlinear electrodynamics has been an important area of research for a long time. Investigations based on nonlinear Lagrangians, such as Euler-Heisenberg and Born-Infeld, are instrumental in exploring the limits of classical and quantum…

General Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 T. W. Cruz , V. A. De Lorenci , E. Guzmán-Herrera , C. C. H. Ribeiro

We study the propagation of a probe light in an ensemble of $\Lambda$-type atoms, utilizing the dynamic symmetry as recently discovered when the atoms are coupled to a classical control field and a quantum probe field {[Sun {\it et al.,}…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Li , C. P. Sun

On speed of a photon in a dispersing medium Ogluzdin Valeriy E. Abstract Based on the author of the experimental results and their treatment, a model that demonstrates that the real dispersive medium in spectral regions where the refractive…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 Valeriy E. Ogluzdin

We present experimental results relative to superluminal propagation based on a single photon traversing an optical system, called 4f-system, which acts singularly on the photon's spectral component phases. A single photon is created by a…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Cialdi , I. Boscolo , F. Castelli , V. Petrillo

The additional degree of freedom as introduced by the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light has revolutionized the various technological applications. Optical pulses with OAM have applications in the generation of twisted attosecond…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-11 Shakti Singh , AKhilesh Kumar Mishra

The paper considers the propagation of Laguerre-Gaussian beams in a turbulent gas medium. As demonstrated by numerical modelling and the decomposition of Laguerre-Gaussian modes according to the basis of orthogonal Zernike polynomials,…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-05 D. D. Reshetnikov , A. S. Losev

We present an experimental demonstration of a Laguerre-Gauss (LG) spectrum measurement technique using variable focus lenses that is able to measure the strengths of all modes present in an unknown, incoming light beam with the highest…

We show that optical tachyonic dispersion corresponding to superluminal (faster than-light) group velocities characterizes parametrically amplifying media. The turn-on of parametric amplification in finite media, followed by illumination by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-15 G. Kurizki , A. E. Kozhekin , A. G. Kofman , M. Blaauboer

Propagation of gamma-beam in the anisotropic medium is considered. The simpliest example of such a medium of the general type is a combination of the two linearly polarized monochromatic laser waves with different frequencies (dichromatic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Maisheev

Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beam has orbital angular momentum (OAM). A particle trapped in an LG beam will rotate about the beam axis, due to the transfer of OAM. The rotation of the particle is usually in the same direction as that of the beam…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-15 Yang Li , Lei-Ming Zhou , Nan Zhao