原子晶格中基于自发辐射相干效应的光子带隙

利用电磁感应透明技术,在一维光晶格中相干驱动四能级Lambda模型冷原子系统,从而实现动力学可调谐电磁感应光子带隙结构。基于两邻近能级间的自发辐射相干(SGC)效应,通过控制耦合场从远共振到共振,使该原子系统实现从两个光子带隙转变为三个光子带隙的动态过程。当自发辐射相干效应不存在时,在探测场共振区域处探测光子被原子系统强烈吸收,因此感应光子带隙严重形变甚至无法形成。通过数值计算证明光子带隙结构的形成源自于自发辐射相干效应下探测场和耦合场之间的三阶交叉克尔(Kerr)非线性调制,并且通过控制耦合场的耦合方式,可以实现系统从两个光子带隙到三个光子带隙的动力学调控。     

电磁感应双光子带隙的产生和控制

基于电磁感应透明技术, 通过求解原子的密度矩阵方程和电磁场的传输矩阵方程, 研究了被行波场和驻波场共同耦合的一个四能级冷原子介质的稳态光学特性, 发现在特定参数下能够产生一个几乎完美的双光子带隙结构, 在这两个光子带隙对应的频率区域内反射率都均匀地超过95%. 通过改变耦合场的强度和频率, 可以方便地调节这两个光子带隙的位置和宽度. 这一双光子带隙结构可用来实现全光路由和全光开关, 有望在全光信息网络中获得应用.     

二维电磁感应光子带隙的动态生成与调控

研究了由两个垂直传播的强驻波激光场共同耦合的一个四能级Tripod型冷⁸⁷Rb原子介质的稳态光学响应特性. 结果发现, 当两驻波场满足双光失谐条件时, 可在这两驻波场的传播方向上同时获得反射率高达95%以上的电磁感应光子带隙结构; 通过适当调节强激光场, 还可实现一个方向为光子带隙而另一个方向为透明窗口或者两个方向均为透明窗口的结构. 并且光子带隙和透明窗口的频宽和位置是可调谐的. 这种全光控制的二维的信号光禁闭和导通机制可用于实现全光开关和全光路由, 有利于复杂的全光通讯网络的开发. 关键词： 相干诱导光子带隙 电磁感应透明 周期调制原子相干     

赝带隙光子晶体中原子集合的自发辐射动力学

介绍了三维赝带隙光子晶体中原子集合的自发辐射衰减分布特性，发现不同的原子集合弥散组态，其原子自发辐射呈现十分宽或窄的有限的寿命分布，纯粹光子晶体效应可导致加速和抑制衰减过程并存，从理论上揭示了现有的实验结果的重大分歧的缘由。     

一维冷原子晶格中相干诱导三光子带隙

基于电磁感应透明技术,将相干耦合的Tripod型原子俘获在一维光晶格中并使其呈高斯型分布,由于介质的折射率被一维光晶格周期性调制,从而实现动态调控的三光子带隙结构.通过求解光场与原子相互作用密度矩阵方程以及光波在周期性介质中散射的传输矩阵方程,计算出探测场在相干驱动介质中的稳态反射谱和透射谱.计算结果表明:光子带隙的位置、宽度以及反射率可以通过改变两个耦合场的失谐、强度和几何布拉格失谐来调谐.     

光子带隙材料及亚波长微结构材料中等离子体共振导致的量子相干效应

我们对两类光学材料-光子晶体及左手材料中的量子相干效应进行了理论研究。光子带隙材料通常是指人工制作的具有光子通带和禁带的光学材料，它可以用来控制光场的传输及某些微观过程。光子晶体是典型的光子带隙材料，光子晶体的周期性结构导致其中的原子的量子光学性质与自由空间中明显不同，例如出现光局域化与原子自发辐射的抑制、光子-原子束缚态、二能级原子布居数囚禁等现象。最近的研究还表明心，特殊的态密度分布会导致感应透明现象，使得原子对与其共振的探测光场的吸收趋于零。这与电磁感应透明（EIT）类似，但不需要外加耦合场来建立相干。我们系统地研究了光子晶体特殊态密度产生的量子相干效应，包括三能级系统的感应透明、无反转增益、光速减慢等，及四能级系统的自发辐射和光开关效应，发现强的量子相干效应导致原子辐射与吸收性质产生多方面的改变。     

调控电磁感应透明气体折射率实现可控光子带隙结构

提出了电磁感应透明(EIT)介质的一个新的相干操纵应用：控制电磁感应透明气体折射率实现可控光子带隙结构. 将一定密度的EIT原子气体充入以砷化钾为背景的椭圆孔柱中，计算表明该三角晶格排列椭圆柱光子晶体的光子带隙随外控制场而变. 通过调控自发辐射率、无辐射衰变率、控制光Rabi频率、原子数密度等外参数以及椭圆结构几何参数，在高频率区域得到了大小约0.0503ω_e(ω_e=2πc/a)的完全光子带隙.     

基于自发辐射相干实现光学前驱动场

研究一个具有两个靠得足够近激发能级的双Lambda模型, 在矩形脉冲中分离出光学前驱动场. 当耦合场是大失谐时, 该原子系统在自发辐射相干效应的影响下产生一个透明窗口并伴随着陡峭的色散曲线. 因此, 由于透明窗口中的慢光效应可以使光学前驱动场从主脉冲场中分离出来. 另外, 我们通过调控脉冲波形序列研究探测场相位和幅值的累积光学前驱动波. 数值结果表明: 由于累积光前驱动场与脉冲主场的相长干涉大大地提高瞬态脉冲的能量.     

具有态守恒赝隙的光子晶体中两能级原子自发辐射的增强与抑制

论证了在赝带隙光子晶体中存在一个全频率域态总数守恒规则，在完全带隙光子晶体中还存在一个局域态总数守恒规则.态总数守恒规则指出，如果一个光子晶体的态密度在某些频率范围存在相对于等效介质态密度的谷，则一定由其他频率范围内相对于等效介质态密度的峰来补偿.使用符合态总数守恒规则的态密度模型，解释了态密度调制导致的自发辐射谱增强、抑制、变窄、红移、蓝移以及谱分裂等光子晶体中的量子光学现象.该理论比较适合研究在具有赝带隙的光子晶体中大量随机分布的发光原子或分子的自发辐射行为. 关键词： 光子晶体 自发辐射 态密度 光子赝带隙     

自发产生相干对探测场的色散和吸收影响

在Y形四能级原子系统中,分析了自发产生相干对探测场的色散和吸收影响. 结果发现,随着自发产生相干的增强,系统呈现的电磁感应透明窗口逐渐变窄,并在共振处出现反常色散,吸收从负值变为正值. 同时,当抽运场和耦合场的相对强度不同时,共振处附近吸收为零或出现增益,而两场强相等或接近时,系统对探测场表现为吸收. 关键词： 非线性光学 电磁感应透明 自发产生相干     

Phase control in an open Λ-type system with spontaneously generated coherence

This paper investigates the control role of the relative phase between the probe and driving fields on the gain, dispersion and populations in an open A system with spontaneously generated coherence （SGC）. It shows that by adjusting the value of the relative phase, a change from lasing with inversion to lasing without inversion can be realized; the values and frequency spectrum regions of the inversionless gain and dispersion can be obviously varied; high refractive index with zero absorption and electromagnetically induced transparency can be achieved. It is also found that when the driving field is resonant, the shapes of the dispersion and the gain curves versus the probe detuning are very similar if the relative phase of the dispersion lags π/2 than that of the gain, however for the off-resonant driving field the similarity will disappear; the gain, dispersion and populations are periodical functions of the relative phase, the modulation period is always 2π; the contribution of SGC to the inversionless gain and dispersion is much larger than that of the dynamically induced coherence.     

光子晶体中四能级系统的量子相干效应

研究了处于光子带隙材料中的四能级原子系统的电磁感应透明、自发辐射和光子开关效应，分析了其稳态与瞬态特性, 发现特殊的模密度能够导致反常的吸收、色散、自发辐射及瞬态无反转增益, 并可以通过外加调制场进行控制.详细讨论了特殊频率处模密度的变化对透明窗口和光子开关效应的影响. 关键词： 光子带隙材料 电磁感应透明 模密度 光子开关     

Modulation of four-wave mixing via photonic band gap

The dressed four-wave mixing （FWM） in a four-level S5Rb atomic system, experimentally demon- strated in this paper, is comprised by two coexisting processes. One is emission signal due to enhanced nonlinear via electromagnetically induced transparency （EIT）. The other is the Bragg reflection of probe beam because of the created photonic band gap （PBG）, which is affected by both linear and third-order nonlinear susceptibility. Moreover, we have demonstrated that different experimental parameters can significantly influence the measured signal with flexibly controlled PBG. These studies are found useful for understanding the fundamental mechanisms in generated FWM processing.     

Storage and Retrieval of a Weak Optical Signal Improved by Spontaneously Generated Coherence in an Atomic Assemble

We investigate the reversible storage of a weak single-mode light signal in a Λ-type three-level atomic system with spontaneously generated coherence (SGC) and pumped by an incoherent field.The scheme is phase-dependent.If the phase of the controlling field is set oppositely to that of the signal field,the combination of SGC with weak pump overcomes the drawback of incompletely retrieval in the conventional scheme,leading to 100% retrieval fidelity or even to the amplification of the retrieved signal with respect to its initial one.     

Comparative Study of Light Manipulation in Three-Level Systems Via Spontaneously Generated Coherence and Relative Phase of Laser Fields *

We present a comparative study of the control of-group velocity in three-level atomic systems including $\Lambda{}$-, Ladder-, and-V-types via spontaneously generated coherence (SGC) and relative phase of laser-fields. In the steady regime, expressions of group index are derived as an-analytical function of controllable parameters related to SGC and relative phase.-It is shown that the group velocity can be further slowed down or speeded up-under SGC in which modifications of group velocity due to the SGC in $\Lambda{}$--and V-systems are stronger than that in Ladder-system. In particular, when-interference strength of SGC p increases from 0.7 to 1.0, the light-propagation is switched from superluminal to subluminal modes (for $\Lambda{}$--and Ladder-systems) or from subluminal to superluminal modes (for V-system). In-the presence of relative phase, the group velocity changes between subluminal and-superluminal modes with a period of 2$\pi{}$. In resonant region, the largest-positive value of group index reaches at the relative phase $\varphi{}$ = $\pi{}$-while the largest negative value of group index reaches at $\varphi{}$ = 0 and-2$\pi{}$ for the $\Lambda{}$- and Ladder-systems, otherwise, for the V-system the-largest positive group index occurs at $\varphi{}$ = 0 and 2$\pi{}$, and the largest-negative group index occurs at $\varphi{}$ = $\pi{}$.     

自发相干效应研究

Spontaneously Generated Coherence（SGC） refers to a kind of quantum coherence induced by the process of spontaneous emission. It can greatly affect the dynamics of a quantum system, and accounts for a variety of important phenomena. Many efforts have been devoted to this topic, aiming to investigate the essence of quantum coherence and advanced technologies. However, the existence of SGC needs rigorous requirements which can hardly been fulfilled in atoms placed in a free space. Therefore we must give particular considerations to investigate this coherence experimentally. In this paper, a few interesting phenomena related to SGC are summarized, such as gain without inversion, coherent population trapping, phase sensitive spec- tra, and modifications of absorption, emission, and refraction. We also review the investigations on the reali- zation of SGC, such as modifying the vacuum, coupling levels with static fields, simulating SGC with coherence induced by coherent fields, and studying SGC in special materials.     

Design and optimisation of multimode 1D photonic band gap waveguide

The modal characteristics of planar waveguides with photonic band gap guiding properties are studied. It is demonstrated that a slight deviation from the periodicity in the photonic band gap multilayers can result in multimode transmission within the guiding layer. Possible applications of the results for avoiding single mode regime destruction due to fabrication process imperfection, as well as for designing such waveguides for conventional and emerging new applications of multimode photonic devices, are pointed out.