Three-Colour Excitation of D_1 Transition in Cold Rubidium Atoms

• Authors: A. Alhasan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We analyse the three-colour electromagnetically induced transparency for the D_1 transition in cold ^{87}Rb atoms. We report an enhancement of the electromagnetically induced emission of a drive field as an exclusive enhancement of the third- and fourth-rank components of the density matrix. Moreover, the gain experienced by the drive field is attributed to the influence of the quantum switching effect on the increased absorption of the probe field. The electromagnetically induced emission effect is employed to generate slow light Gaussian-wave trains with shape preserving. These soliton trains were not only generated in the drive channel as has been designated but also in the switch channel which reveals multiple-light storage phenomenon.

Keywords

EN

42.50.Gy; 42.50.Hz; 42.65.-k

Discipline

• 42.50.Hz: Strong-field excitation of optical transitions in quantum systems; multiphoton processes; dynamic Stark shift(for multiphoton ionization and excitation of atoms and molecules, see 32.80.Rm, and 33.80.Rv, respectively)
• 42.50.Gy: Effects of atomic coherence on propagation, absorption, and amplification of light; electromagnetically induced transparency and absorption
• 42.65.-k: Nonlinear optics

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 111
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 299-321

Dates

published

2007-03

received

2006-04-03

(unknown)

2006-10-13

(unknown)

2007-03-19

Contributors

author

A. Alhasan

• Institute of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Pomeranian University in Słupsk, Arciszewskiego 22b, 76-200 Słupsk, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.111.299