Absorption Changes Induced by Off-Resonance Driving a Degenerate Two-Level System

The alteration of atomic absorption via quantum coherence is observed in the degenerate two-level atomic system. It is shown that when the detuning of coupling field equals to that of probe light, i.e. two-photon resonance, the reduction of atomic absorption via electromagnetically induced transparency occurs. However, when we tune the coupling field to two-photon off-resonance, the enhancement of absorption is obtained for the probe field. The influences of one-photon detuning and intensity of coupling field on absorption are also experimentally demonstrated.     

N型四能级系统的原子吸收

研究了在较强光低饱和限制下相干光场与N型四能级原子相互作用系统中原子的吸收性质。借助于数值计算,讨论了较强光失谐、探针光强、激发能级向低能级衰减的分配系数对原子吸收的影响。结果表明,抽运场失谐使原子吸收发生横向变化,信号场失谐使原子吸收发生纵向变化;探针光强影响非线性吸收,并通过它影响原子吸收,当探针光强远小于抽运和信号光强时,原子吸收与线性吸收一致,均表现为电磁感应透明特征,当信号光强增大,非线性吸收产生了增益,原子吸收也由透明变为增益;激发能级同时向两个低能级衰减,当对应探针光的原子衰减通道的衰减分配系数趋近零时,原子吸收随该系数变化非常强烈,当该分配系数等于零时,其增益在探针场共振处趋于无穷大。     

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     

Dynamical switching and memory via incoherent pump assisted optical bistability

We analyze the dynamical behavior of all-optical switching and memory based on tunable optical bistability in a three-level Λ-type atomic system driven by a probe field circulating in an optical ring cavity, a coherent coupling field and an incoherent pump field outside cavity. Owing to the incoherent pump process, the absorption and Kerr nonlinearity near the atomic resonance change dramatically as a result of varied population distribution and atomic coherence, and then the switch-up and switch-down thresholds, as well as the width (or area) of bistable curve, can be manipulated effectively. By tuning the intensity of either coherent coupling field or incoherent pump field, we can make the system output flip between the lower and upper branches of different bistable hysteresis loops while the cavity input keeps to a constant value. Accordingly, all-optical switching and memory can be implemented via dynamical control of the bistable behavior under the assistance of incoherent pump. The proposed scheme can find potential applications in all-optical communication and computation.     

Steady-state analysis of three-photon absorption spectra via density-matrix method in a three-coupled-quantum-well nanostructure

We numerically simulate three-photon absorption spectra in a three-coupled-quantum-well nanostructure interacting with a pump field,a coherent coupling field,and a probe field.We find that the three-photon absorption spectra can be dramatically influenced due to the intensities of the coupling field and pump field changing under the three-photon resonance condition.The effect of the frequency detuning of the pump field on the three-photon absorption spectra is also discussed.The study in our case is much more practical than the study in the case of its atomic counterpart in the sense of flexible design and the wide adjustable parameters.Thus it may open up some new possibilities for technological applications in optoelectronics and solid-state quantum information science.     

Transient electromagnetically induced transparency spectroscopy of 87Rb atoms in buffer gas

We study the transient response dynamics of ⁸⁷Rb atomic vapor buffered in 8 torr Ne gas through an electromagnetically induced transparency configured in $\varLambda$-scheme. Experimentally, the temporal transmission spectra versus probe detuning by switching on and off the coupling one show complex structures. The transmitted probe light intensity drops to a minimum value when the coupling light turns off, showing a strong absorption. Even at the moment of turning on the coupling light at a subsequent delayed time, the atomic medium shows a fast transient response. To account for the transient switching feature, in the time-dependent optical Bloch equation, we must take the transverse relaxation dephasing process of atomic vapor into account, as well as the fluorescence relaxation along with the optical absorption. This work supplies a technique to quantify the transverse relaxation time scale and to sensitively monitor its variation along the environment by observing the transient dynamics of coherent medium, which is helpful in characterizing the coherent feature of the atomic medium.     

Sudden Death and Long-Lived Entanglement Between Two Atoms in a Double JC Model System

Considering a double JC model with different coupling constants, we investigate the entanglement between the two two-level atoms, and discuss dependence of the atom-atom entanglement on the different coupling constants, and the detuning between the atomic transition frequency and the cavity field frequency. The results show when Δ=δ/g is small, with the increase of the relative difference of the two atom-cavity coupling constants γ, the atom-atom entanglement periodically evolves with the amplitude slowly and periodically modulated. What’s more interesting is that long-lived entanglement between the two atoms can be obtained when atom A non-resonantly interacts with the cavity field a, and atom B has no coupling with the cavity field b. In this case, the concurrence C ^AB (t) of the two atoms evolves in form of cosine, and is invariant and equals the initial value when far off resonance. In addition, we find that the so-called entanglement sudden death can occur under appropriate conditions on the detunings and the different coupling constants for different initial atomic states.     

Emission spectra following radiation trapping switching off: coherent effects detected up to resonance and signal enhancement

This paper reports strong-field modified emission spectra of a dipole allowed transition to the ground state, detected in an optically thick vapour subject to radiation trapping. The strong field coupled the higher level of the atomic transition to an upper level of the same atomic species (strontium). The coherence effects were outlined up to resonance in rather dilute vapour conditions. Enhancement of the fluorescent signal after radiation trapping switching off depends on the overlapping of the coupling laser beam with the radiation trapping region.     

Switching from "absorption within transparency" to "transparency within transparency" in an electromagnetically induced absorption dominated transition

The absorption of a resonant coupling laser driving a closed degenerate two-level system in an atomic cesium beam was investigated as a function of the detuning of a second laser probing the same transition. The measurements were performed for four different polarization combinations of the two laser beams. Except for the beams of counterrotating polarizations all coupling-laser absorption profiles showed "absorption within transparency," i.e., the absorption in the region around the two-photon resonance was smaller than the absorption corresponding to the one-photon transition induced by the coupling laser, and an extra absorption peak was observed on this curve at the two-photon resonance. With regard to the beams of counterrotating polarizations we observed a switch from absorption within transparency to "transparency within transparency" when the probe-laser power exceeded the constant coupling-laser power. In other words, the cesium ensemble became mostly transparent to the coupling-laser beam at the two-photon resonance.     

Continuously tunable sub-half-wavelength localization via coherent control of spontaneous emission

We propose a continuously tunable method of sub-half-wavelength localization via the coherent control of the spontaneous emission of a four-level Y-type atomic system,which is coupled to three strong coupling fields including a standing-wave field together with a weak probe field.It is shown that the sub-half-wavelength atomic localization is realized for both resonance and off-resonance cases.Furthermore,by varying the probe detuning in succession,the positions of the two localization peaks are tuned continuously within a wide range of probe field frequencies,which provides convenience for the realization of sub-half-wavelength atomic localization experimentally.     

Spectral specific features of the interaction of two fields of arbitrary intensity with three-level Λ-systems

The spectrum of absorption of a probe field of arbitrary intensity by three-level atoms with the Λ configuration of levels in the field of a strong electromagnetic wave acting on an adjacent transition is studied theoretically. It is shown that the supernarrow resonance, revealed earlier by us, in the absorption spectrum of the probe field far from the resonance with the atomic transition is retained as the probe field intensity increases. The dependence of the amplitude and of the width of the supernarrow resonance on the probe-field intensity is elucidated. The resonance contrast decreases insignificantly (by only a factor of several), even when the probe-field intensity becomes comparable with the intensity of the strong field.     

The linear optical properties in quantum dots under a single coupling field

Using the density matrix method, the linear optical properties of truncated pyramid quantum dots have been investigated when an additional coupling field is introduced. The absorption coefficients and refractive index changes are strongly affected by the amplitude of the coupling field and the phase difference between the probe and coupling fields. The numerical results indicate that negative absorption and transparency can be obtained when both of the probe and coupling fields are in resonance with the quantum dots.     

Fast optical switching via stimulated Raman adiabatic passage

We demonstrate a new approach to fast optical switching with a technique based on stimulated Raman adiabatic passage in which a laser pulse switches the probe field on and off via another coupling pulse. This new kind of optical switching is not limited by the decay rate of an excited state and can operate in the subnanosecond time domain. The experimental observation in Rb atomic vapor is in good agreement with numerical simulations.     

Entangling two uncoupled flux qubits via their sequential interaction with a quantized electromagnetic field

A theoretical scheme for the generation of maximally entangled states of two superconducting flux qubits via their sequential interaction with a monochromatic quantum field is presented. The coupling of the qubits with the quantized field can be tuned on and off resonance by modulating the effective Josephson energy of each qubit via an externally applied magnetic flux. The system operates in such a way as to transfer the entanglement from a bipartite field-qubit subsystem to the two qubits. This scheme is attractive in view of the implementation of practical quantum processing systems.     

Single-shot reflection <Emphasis Type="Italic">Z</Emphasis>-scan for measurements of the nonlinear refraction of nontransparent materials

Extremely large optical Kerr non-linearities (n₂) and (n₄) were measured in two closed degenerate two-level transitions in the caesium D₂ line when a probe and a coupling laser simultaneously probed and coupled the hyperfine structure in an atomic beam. The magnitude of the measured non-linearities in both transitions were found to be a function of the coupling laser intensity and of the probe detuning from the two-photon resonance. In a figure of merit, the ratio between the non-unitarian part of the refractive index and the absorption coefficient measured in conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency showed a maximum value for a probe detuning of 160 kHz from the two-photon resonance and resulted in being 10⁵ times larger than in the absence of the coupling laser field. PACS 32.70.Jz; 42.50.Gy; 42.65-k     

Effective theory of Feshbach resonances and many-body properties of Fermi gases

For calculating low-energy properties of a dilute gas of atoms interacting via a Feshbach resonance, we develop an effective theory in which the parameters that enter are an atom-molecule coupling strength and the magnetic moment of the molecular resonance. We demonstrate that, for resonances in the fermionic systems 6Li and 40K that are under experimental investigation, the coupling is so strong that many-body effects are appreciable even when the resonance lies at an energy large compared with the Fermi energy. We calculate a number of many-body effects, including the effective mass and the lifetime of atomic quasiparticles in the gas.     

二项式光场和负二项式光场与耦合双原子依赖强度耦合系统原子反转的时间演化

研究了二项式光场和负二项式光场与耦合双原子依赖强度耦合相互作用系统原子布居反转的时间演化规律,讨论了原子间相互作用和光场初态对原子反转的时间演化的影响.     

Stark effect and generalized Bloch-Siegert shift in a strongly driven two-level system

A superconducting qubit was driven in an ultrastrong fashion by an oscillatory microwave field, which was created by coupling via the nonlinear Josephson energy. The observed Stark shifts of the "atomic" levels are so pronounced that corrections even beyond the lowest-order Bloch-Siegert shift are needed to properly explain the measurements. The quasienergies of the dressed two-level system were probed by resonant absorption via a cavity, and the results are in agreement with a calculation based on the Floquet approach.