Optical Manipulation of Light Scattering in Cold Atomic Rubidium
Abstract
A brief perspective on light scattering in dense and cold atomic rubidium is presented. We particularly focus on the influence of auxiliary applied fields on the system response to a weak and nearly resonant probe field. Auxiliary fields can strongly disturb light propagation; in addition to the steady state case, dynamically interesting effects appear clearly in both the time domain, and in the optical polarization dependence of the processes. Following a general introduction, two examples of features found in such studies are presented. These include nonlinear optical effects in (a) comparative studies of forward- and fluorescence-configuration scattering under combined excitation of a control and probe field, and (b) manipulation of the spatial structure of the optical response due to a light shifting strong applied field.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1406.5783,
title = {Optical Manipulation of Light Scattering in Cold Atomic Rubidium},
author = {R. G. Olave and A. L. Win and Kasie Kemp and S. J. Roof and S. Balik and M. D. Havey and I. M. Sokolov and D. V. Kupriyanov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.5783},
year = {2015}
}