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All-Optical Light Confinement in Dynamic Cavities in Cold Atoms

Source: Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 133601 (2009); doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.133601

Published 24 September 2009

PACS
  • 42.50.Gy
    Effects of atomic coherence on propagation, absorption, and amplification of light
  • 42.70.Qs
    Photonic bandgap materials
  • YEAR: 2009
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Jin-Hui Wu,1 M. Artoni,2,3 and G. C. La Rocca4
1College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, People's Republic of China
2Department of Physics and Chemistry of Materials & CNR-INFM Sensor Laboratory, University of Brescia, Italy
3European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Firenze, Italy
4Scuola Normale Superiore and CNISM, Pisa, Italy
We show how to realize in a cold atomic sample a dynamic magneto-optically controlled cavity in which a slow-light pulse can be confined and released on demand. The probe optical pulse is retrieved from the atomic spin coherence initially stored within the cavity and is subsequently confined there subject to a slow-light regime with little loss and diffusion for time intervals as long as a few hundred microseconds before being extracted from either side of the cavity. Our proof-of-principle scheme illustrates the underlying physics of this new mechanism for coherent light confinement and manipulation in cold atoms. This may ease the realization of nonlinear interactions between weak light pulses where strong atom-photon interactions are required for quantum information processing. ©2009 The American Physical Society
History: Received 17 January 2009; published 24 September 2009
Permalink: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v103/e133601

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