Quantum memory based on optical subradiance: Optimization of the signal-to-noise ratio

A scheme for creating subradiant states in an extended system of atoms, based on the use of an external inhomogeneous electric field, is proposed. It is shown that the maximum signal-to-noise ratio at the output of a quantum memory device using such subradiant states for data storage is obtained when the temporal shape of recorded single-photon wave packets (quantum information carriers) is a time-reversed pulse characteristic of a resonant atomic system. In this case, the quantum memory efficiency tends to unity in the limit of large optical thickness of the resonant medium.     

Phase coherent photorefractivity in ZnSe single quantum wells

We observe an efficient phase coherent photorefractive effect in ZnSe single quantum wells for ultrashort light pulses resonant to the excitonic transition. The effect is attributed to the formation of an electron grating in the quantum well induced by the interference of coherent excitons that preserve phase and polarization of the incident light fields. All characteristic features of the diffracted signal are explained and reproduced by numerical calculations that are based on the optical Bloch equations for a three-level system.     

Guided-mode resonant Brewster filter consisting of two homogenous layers and a single grating with an equal refractive index

In this paper, a new type of resonant Brewster filter (RBF) consisting of two homogenous layers and a single grating with an equal refractive index is presented. The properties are studied by using the plane waveguide method (PWM) and rigorous coupled-wave analysis (RCWA). It is found that the variation of the grating thickness does not effectively change the position of the resonant wavelength, however it has a remarkable effect on the line width, and the resonant peak can be adjusted back to its original position by slightly tuning the grating period. Moreover, by simultaneously tuning the thicknesses of the homogeneous layers above and beneath the grating structure, multiple channels can also be obtained when the RBF is illuminated at the Brewster angle calculated with the effective medium theory (EMT) of subwavelength grating. The adjacent optical thickness for acquiring the multiple channels is about three-quarters of the resonant wavelength. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the line width at the operating resonant wavelength can be appreciably narrowed by tuning the thickness of the homogenous layer to its corresponding thickness without fine tuning the grating period or the thickness. Therefore, it is very useful for designing filters with different line widths at the desired wavelength. In addition, it is shown from our calculations that the symmetrical line feather can be obtained if the total optical thickness for the homogeneous layer meets the special condition.     

Guided-mode resonant Brewster filter consisting of two homogenous layers and a single grating with an equal refractive index

In this paper,a new type of resonant Brewster filter(RBF) consisting of two homogenous layers and a single grating with an equal refractive index is presented.The properties are studied by using the plane waveguide method(PWM) and rigorous coupled-wave analysis(RCWA).It is found that the variation of the grating thickness does not effectively change the position of the resonant wavelength,however it has a remarkable effect on the line width,and the resonant peak can be adjusted back to its original position by slightly tuning the grating period.Moreover,by simultaneously tuning the thicknesses of the homogeneous layers above and beneath the grating structure,multiple channels can also be obtained when the RBF is illuminated at the Brewster angle calculated with the effective medium theory(EMT) of subwavelength grating.The adjacent optical thickness for acquiring the multiple channels is about three-quarters of the resonant wavelength.Furthermore,it is demonstrated that the line width at the operating resonant wavelength can be appreciably narrowed by tuning the thickness of the homogenous layer to its corresponding thickness without fine tuning the grating period or the thickness.Therefore,it is very useful for designing filters with different line widths at the desired wavelength.In addition,it is shown from our calculations that the symmetrical line feather can be obtained if the total optical thickness for the homogeneous layer meets the special condition.     

Self-diffraction at a dynamic photonic crystal formed in a colloidal solution of quantum dots

Self-diffraction at a one-dimensional dynamic photonic crystal formed in the colloidal solution of CdSe/ZnS quantum dots has been discovered. This self-diffraction appears simultaneously with self-diffraction at induced transparency channels at the resonant excitation of the main electron–hole (excitonic) transition of quantum dots by two laser beams with a Gaussian intensity distribution over the cross section. It is shown that a nonlinear change in the absorption of colloidal quantum dots results in the formation of a transparency channel and an induced amplitude diffraction grating, and a significant nonlinear change in the refractive index (Δn ≈ 10^?3) in the absorbing medium is responsible for the formation of the dynamic photonic crystal. Self-diffracted laser beams are revealed propagating not only in directions corresponding to self-diffraction at the induced diffraction grating but also in directions satisfying the Laue condition.     

Dual-wavelength distributed Bragg reflector semiconductor laser based on composite resonant cavity

We report a monolithic integrated dual-wavelength laser diode based on a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) composite resonant cavity. The device consists of three sections, a DBR grating section, a passive phase section, and an active gain section. The gain section facet is cleaved to work as a laser cavity mirror. The other laser mirror is the DBR grating, which also functions as a wavelength filter and can control the number of wavelengths involved in the laser action. The reflection bandwidth of the DBR grating is fabricated to have an appropriate value to make the device work at the dual-wavelength lasing state. We adopt the quantum well intermixing (QWI) technique to provide low-absorption loss grating and passive phase section in the fabrication process. By tuning the injection currents on the DBR and the gain sections, the device can generate 0.596 nm-spaced dual-wavelength lasing at room temperature.     

Dual-wavelength distributed Bragg reflector semiconductor laser based on a composite resonant cavity

We report a monolithic integrated dual-wavelength laser diode based on a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) composite resonant cavity. The device consists of three sections, a DBR grating section, a passive phase section, and an active gain section. The gain section facet is cleaved to work as a laser cavity mirror. The other laser mirror is the DBR grating, which also functions as a wavelength filter and can control the number of wavelengths involved in the laser action. The reflection bandwidth of the DBR grating is fabricated to have an appropriate value to make the device work at the dual-wavelength lasing state. We adopt the quantum well intermixing (QWI) technique to provide low-absorption loss grating and passive phase section in the fabrication process. By tuning the injection currents on the DBR and the gain sections, the device can generate 0.596 nm-spaced dual-wavelength lasing at room temperature.     

掺染料向列相液晶的简并四波混频研究

本文研究了掺染料的向列相液晶中的简并四波混频。染料对泵浦光共振吸收后,在液晶中形成热光栅。简并四波混频信号和热光栅的弛豫时间都表现出各向异性。 关键词：     

Electromagnetically Induced Quantum Holographic Imaging

We study the quantum holographic imaging of one-dimensional electromagnetically induced grating created by a strong standing wave in an atomic medium. Entangled photon pairs, generated in a spontaneous parametric down-conversion process, are employed as the imaging light to realize coincidence recording. By theoretical analysis and numerical simulation, we find that both the amplitude and phase information of the object can be imaged with the characteristic of imaging nonlocally and of arbitrarily controllable image variation in size.     

Generation of light carrying orbital angular momentum via induced coherence grating in cold atoms

We report on the generation of light carrying orbital angular momentum through Bragg diffraction into an electromagnetically induced coherence grating in a degenerate two-level system of cold cesium atoms. The induced Zeeman coherence grating is shown to contain the spatial phase structure of the incident beams. The exchange of phase information between a light beam with orbital angular momentum and a long-lived atomic coherence opens up the way to process quantum information encoded in a multidimensional state space.     

Bragg-matching characterization of atomic coherence gratings in an electromagnetically induced transparency solid with a confocal scheme

We studied the Bragg-matching characteristics of atomic coherence gratings recorded in a coherently driven solid based on electromagnetically induced transparency by using a confocal scheme. The results show that the atomic coherence grating is of the same holographic properties as a traditional thick volume holographic grating. Such Bragg-matching characteristics of atomic coherence gratings would lead to important potential applications in optical signal processing and memory based on quantum coherent media.     

谐振腔提高横向光电效应的量子效率

根据位置敏感探测器的原理,设计了p-i-n型的谐振腔结构,研究谐振腔提高横向光电效应的量子效率。以一维缺陷光子晶体作为顶部光学镜,底部为分布式Bragg反射镜(DBR),中间为激活介质谐振腔。利用传输矩阵法计算了一维缺陷光子晶体的透射特性。由于顶部和底部结构的高反作用,一维缺陷光子晶体的透射谐振导模将被有效地限制在激活介质中。通过对谐振腔模型的分析,得出了激活介质的量子效率,并进行了数值仿真。结果表明,一维缺陷光子晶体的谐振导模能有效提高谐振腔中激活介质的量子转换效率。     

共振条件下载波包络相位效应对阈上电离谱的影响

本文通过求解三维含时薛定谔方程, 从理论上研究了共振条件下氢原子的光电子能谱与角分布随着激光脉冲载波包络相位(CEP)的变化规律. 研究结果表明: 在共振位置附近, 光电子能谱的强度与CEP有强烈的依赖关系; 进一步对各个分波的分析, 可以确定共振电离初态的角量子数. 此外, 利用光电子的角分布信息, 可以对多周期激光脉冲的初始相位信息进行高精度探测. 关键词： 阈上电离 超短脉冲 载波包络相位     

Spectral phase induced by the reflection on a mirror-based waveguide grating in the neighborhood of modal resonance

A linearly polarized plane wave impinging on a mirror-based waveguide grating is shown to experience a 2pi phase shift of controllable slope in the reflection spectrum. Such a zeroth-order resonant grating effect is adequately confirmed by means of an ellipsometer. The close agreement between the analytical representation of grating coupled waveguide resonances with the experimental results confirms the relevance of the underlying phenomenological understanding of resonant gratings.     

Numerical Study on Efficient Optical Switching Based on the Nonlinear Phenomenon in a Guided-Mode Resonant Grating with Kerr Medium

Optical switching in a guided-mode resonant grating (GMRG) with a Kerr medium was numerically simulated by the nonlinear finite differential time domain (FDTD) method. The asymmetric resonant grating was adopted to have two resonant reflection peaks for the pump light and the probe light. When the pump light had a wavelength which was slightly longer than the resonant wavelength, the light was suddenly enhanced at a certain intensity because of the nonlinear resonance phenomenon. This resonance is effective in reducing the pump intensity for optical switching. When we assumed the resonant grating of polydiacetylene toluene sulphonate (PTS) with a linear refractive index of 1.88, a third-order susceptibility of 8.5 × 10⊃−0 esu and Q factors of resonant reflection which were ∼800, the pump light of 15 kW/mm⊃ changed transmittance of the probe light from 0 to 80%. 2005 The Optical Society of Japan     

Discontinuity and Protection of Quantum Fisher Information for a Two-Qubit System

We analytically investigate the dynamics of quantum Fisher information of two qubits in independent environments for both uncorrelated and entangled input states.Especially,we observe that,in the non-Markovian regime and resonant case,quantum Fisher information of uncorrelated input state vanishes only at discrete time point whereas that of entangled input state can disappear during finite time interval.It shows that quantum Fisher information,which determines the parameter estimation precision,is strongly affected by the environment memory effects,and the advantage of entanglement-enhance metrology no longer exists even for a very short time.We also note that quantum Fisher information for two kinds of input states can be preserved under appropriate qubit-reservoir detuning.     

Discontinuity and Protection of Quantum Fisher Information for a Two-Qubit System

We analytically investigate the dynamics of quantum Fisher information of two qubits in independent environments for both uncorrelated and entangled input states. Especially, we observe that, in the non-Markovian regime and resonant case, quantum Fisher information of uncorrelated input state vanishes only at discrete time point whereas that of entangled input state can disappear during finite time interval. It shows that quantum Fisher information, which determines the parameter estimation precision, is strongly affected by the environment memory effects, and the advantage of entanglement-enhance metrology no longer exists even for a very short time. We also note that quantum Fisher information for two kinds of input states can be preserved under appropriate qubit-reservoir detuning.     

表面镀层长周期光纤光栅双峰谐振及其透射谱研究

采用严格的耦合模理论,通过求解表面镀层长周期光纤光栅的特征方程,给出了双峰谐振波长的确定方法,以及它与光栅周期和模式序数之间的关系。结果表明,对应于较高次的包层模式,存在双峰谐振现象,且包层模式序数越高,与芯模产生谐振耦合所需的光栅周期越小。进一步讨论了双峰谐振波长的间距随薄膜参量与光栅参量变化的关系,描绘了这些参量对透射谱衰减谐振峰的影响,理论分析结果与X.W.Shu的无镀层长周期光纤光栅实验结果一致。这些研究为建立高灵敏的双峰谐振薄膜传感器提供了结构优化的理论支持。     

一维相位缺陷量子行走的共振传输

从分立时间量子行走理论出发, 分别在包含两个格点相位缺陷和一段格点相位缺陷(方相位势)的一维格点线上研究量子行走的静态共振传输. 利用系统独特的色散关系和边界点上的能量守恒条件, 获得量子行走通过缺陷区域的透射率, 讨论了相位缺陷的强度和宽度不同时透射率随入射动量的变化行为. 在相位缺陷强度π/2两侧, 透射率表现出不同的共振特性, 并给出了强缺陷强度下共振峰和缺陷宽度的关系.     

Study and investigation of long period grating as refractive index sensor

In this paper, we have investigated the response of long period grating (LPG) as refractive index sensor. The response has been studied for refractive index variation ranging from 1 to 1.45. In this work, we found that the sensing mechanism is based on two different aspects. First is the change of coupling power from the guided core mode to other co-propagating cladding modes and second is the wavelength shift of the peak resonant wavelengths from their original positions due the change of refractive index of the environmental (external) medium surrounding the cladding of the grating.