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We investigate a recently proposed scheme for differential detection of the magneto-optical rotation effect and its application to electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) atomic clocks. This scheme utilizes a linearly polarized…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-07-29 Melissa A. Guidry , Elena Kuchina , Irina Novikova , Eugeniy E. Mikhailov

A unique approach for steady in-phase locking of lasers in an array, regardless of the array geometry, position, orientation, period or size, is presented. The approach relies on the insertion of an intra-cavity Gaussian aperture in the…

We present here a simple laser system for a laser cooled atom interferometer, where all functions (laser cooling, interferometry and detection) are realized using only two extended cavity laser diodes, amplified by a common tapered…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Sébastien Merlet , Laurent Volodimer , Michel Lours , Franck Pereira Dos Santos

We report laser cooling and trapping of yttrium monoxide (YO) molecules in an optical lattice. We show that gray molasses cooling remains exceptionally efficient for YO molecules inside the lattice with a molecule temperature as low as…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Yewei Wu , Justin J. Burau , Kameron Mehling , Jun Ye , Shiqian Ding

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 study the lensing effect experienced by a weak probe field under conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) involving a Rydberg state. A Gaussian coupling beam tightly focused on a laser-cooled atomic cloud produces an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Jingshan Han , Thibault Vogt , Manukumara Manjappa , Ruixiang Guo , Martin Kiffner , Wenhui Li

We show that optical patterns formed in a cold Rydberg atomic gas working at the condition of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) can be selected by using a weakly modulated control laser field. We also show that the (hexagonal,…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-22 Zeyun Shi , Guoxiang Huang

We consider the quantum effect of slow light dark soliton (SLDS) in a cold atomic gas with defocuing Kerr nonlinearity via electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). We calculate the quantum fluctuations of the SLDS by solving the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Jinzhong Zhu , Guoxiang Huang

We investigate the quantum squeezing of slow-light solitons generated in a $\Lambda$-shaped three-level atomic system working under condition of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). We show that due to the giant Kerr nonlinearity…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-24 Jinzhong Zhu , Qi Zhang , Guoxiang Huang

Laser cooling on weak transitions is a useful technique for reaching ultracold temperatures in atoms with multiple valence electrons. However, for strongly magnetic atoms a conventional narrow-line magneto-optical trap (MOT) is destabilized…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrew J. Berglund , James L. Hanssen , Jabez J. McClelland

We propose a scheme of storing and releasing pulses or cw beams of light in a moving atomic medium illuminated by two stationary and spatially separated control lasers. The method is based on electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Juzeliunas , M. Masalas , M. Fleischhauer

We present a technique for measuring ion temperature using cavity-based electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) applicable for cavity QED systems. This method enables efficient extraction of the ion's phonon occupation number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Abhijit Kundu , Vijay Bhatt , Arijit Sharma

Recent years have seen vast progress in the generation and detection of structured light, with potential applications in high capacity optical data storage and continuous variable quantum technologies. Here we measure the transmission of…

We theoretically and experimentally investigate double electromagnetically induced transparency (double-EIT) cooling of two-dimensional ion crystals confined in a Paul trap. The double-EIT ground-state cooling is observed for \Yb ions with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Mu Qiao , Ye Wang , Zhengyang Cai , Botao Du , Pengfei Wang , Chunyang Luan , Wentao Chen , Heung-Ryoul Noh , Kihwan Kim

We report on experiments generating a magneto-optical trap (MOT) of 88-strontium ($^{88}$Sr) atoms at microkelvin temperature, using integrated-photonics devices. With metasurface optics integrated on a fused-silica substrate, we generate…

We have observed CW lasing without inversion in a gas of hot rubidium atoms in an optical cavity under conditions of electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT). The medium is pumped coherently and resonantly by a single ``coupling''…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Haibin Wu , Min Xiao , J. Gea-Banacloche

We show two channel electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) spectra at various optical power. The two channels are coupling field and probe field absorption. It is shown that EIT width and intensity increases linearly with pump…

Optics · Physics 2007-11-15 S. M. Iftiquar

We report the phenomena of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and electromagnetically induced absorption (EIA) using two identical beams in rubidium atomic vapor. The {\Lambda}-type EIT configuration is employed to examine the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Lin Cheng , Zhiyuan Xiong , Shuaishuai Hou , Yijia Sun , Chenyu Dong , Fan Wu , Kun Huang

Electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT) exploits quantum coherence to burn subnatural linewidth holes within a spectral line. We investigate the less explored properties of EIT to effect absorptive nonlinear processes without…