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Electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT) with Rydberg atoms enables strong interactions between atoms to be controlled and measured by pulses of light. Consequently, Rydberg dark polaritons are a promising platform for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-22 Hudson Pimenta , Aaron Z. Goldberg , Josiah Sinclair , Kent Bonsma-Fisher

We present a detailed analysis of the recently demonstrated technique to generate quasi-stationary pulses of light [M. Bajcsy {\it et al.}, Nature (London) \textbf{426}, 638 (2003)] based on electromagnetically induced transparency. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 F. E. Zimmer , A. André , M. D. Lukin , M. Fleischhauer

We have commenced experiments with intense short pulses of ion beams on the Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment-II at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, by generating beam spots size with radius r < 1 mm within 2 ns FWHM and…

Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in metastable helium at room temperature is experimentally shown to exhibit light storage capabilities for intermediate values of the detuning between the coupling and probe beams and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-17 M. -A. Maynard , T. Labidi , M. Mukhtar , S. Kumar , R. Ghosh , F. Bretenaker , F. Goldfarb

We present an all-optical detection approach to determine the position and spatial profile of an electron beam based on quantum properties of alkali metal atoms. To measure the electric field, produced by an electron beam, we excite thermal…

We propose a method for trapping weak signal pulses by soliton and realizing its trajectory control via electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). The system we consider is a cold, coherent atomic gas with a tripod or multipod level…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-19 Zhiming Chen , Guoxiang Huang

We show the possible stable soliton generation for the dark-state polaritons (DSPs) in an electromagnetic induced transparency (EIT) medium composed of $\Lambda$-type atoms. Whether the solitons are dark or bright can be controlled by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xiong-Jun Liu , Hui Jing , Mo-Lin Ge

A scheme for a surface plasmon resonance system under conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is proposed. The system is composed of three layers: a prism, a thin metal film, and a hybrid dielectric consisting of EIT…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 Chunguang Du

Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), arising from quantum interference in coherently driven atomic systems, has inspired a variety of photonic analogues, such as coupled-resonator-induced transparency (CRIT) built on the…

Frequency conversion process is studied in a medium of atoms with a $\Lambda$ configuration of levels, where transition between two lower states is driven by a microwave field. In this system, conversion efficiency can be very high by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. V. Kosachiov , E. A. Korsunsky

Using the density matrix theory of interaction between light and matter, and relevant parameters of the relaxation rates for a six-level model, we have shown theoretically the possibility of realizing Electromagnetically Induced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hassan Kaatuzian , Sina Mehrabadi , Ahmad Ajdarzadeh Oskouei

With our all-atomic squeezing and filtering setup, we demonstrate control over the noise amplitudes and manipulation of the frequency-dependent squeezing angle of a squeezed vacuum quantum state by passing it through an atomic medium with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 Travis Horrom , Gleb Romanov , Irina Novikova , Eugeniy E. Mikhailov

We investigate how next-generation laser pulses at 10 PW $-$ 200 PW interact with a solid target in the presence of a relativistically underdense preplasma produced by amplified spontaneous emission (ASE). Laser hole boring and relativistic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 W. -M. Wang , P. Gibbon , Z. -M. Sheng , Y. -T. Li , J. Zhang

We show that coherent multiple light scattering, or diffuse light propagation, in a disordered atomic medium, prepared at ultra-low temperatures, can be be effectively delayed in the presence of a strong control field initiating a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 L. V. Gerasimov , I. M. Sokolov , D. V. Kupriyanov , R. G. Olave , M. D. Havey

Attosecond light pulses in the extreme ultraviolet have drawn a great deal of attention due to their ability to interrogate electronic dynamics in real time. Nevertheless, to follow charge dynamics and excitations in materials, element…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 S. M. Teichmann , F. Silva , S. L. Cousin , M. Hemmer , J. Biegert

In this paper, we theoretically and experimentally demonstrate a three dimensional metamaterial that can motivate electromagnetic induced transparency (EIT) by using circular polarized wave as stimulations. The unit cell consists of a pair…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Hai Lin , Dong Yang , Song Han , Yangjie Liu , Helin Yang

We theoretically investigate a scheme in which backward coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) is significantly enhanced by using slow light. Specifically, we reduce the group velocity of the Stokes excitation pulse by introducing a…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-03 Li Gong , Haifeng Wang

We observed electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and dark fluorescence in a cascade three-level diatomic Lithium system using Optical-Optical Double Resonance (OODR) spectroscopy. When a strong coupling laser couples the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jianbing Qi , A. Marjatta Lyyra

We investigate the role of non-uniform spatial density profiles of trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensates in the propagation of Raman-matched laser pulses under conditions for electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). We find that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu , L. You

We realize a suppression of an electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) like transmission in a metasurface induced by a local electric field that is strongly enhanced based on two approaches: squeezing of electromagnetic energy in…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-12 Yasuhiro Tamayama , Keisuke Hamada , Kanji Yasui