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Mehdinejad A. Coherent control of light-induced torque on four-level tripod atom systems. Sci Rep 2023; 13:11697. [PMID: 37474708 PMCID: PMC10359286 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-38866-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2023] [Accepted: 07/16/2023] [Indexed: 07/22/2023] Open
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This paper investigates the manipulation of induced torque on a four-level tripod atom system through the interaction with two vortex probe beams featuring spatial inhomogeneity, along with a non-vortex control beam. The study explores both the linear and nonlinear regimes of torque induction. In the linear regime, where the intensity of the vortex beams is weaker than that of the control field, effective control over the induced torque is demonstrated by adjusting parameters such as magnetic field strength, control field intensity, detuning, and dephasing terms between relevant atomic levels. The analysis highlights the significant contribution of the Zeeman shift-induced magnetic field, which enhances the torque and exhibits a distinct sharp peak. Furthermore, higher-order contributions to the induced torque are discussed as the intensity of the probe fields approaches that of the control field, resulting in further enhancement of the induced torque. These findings offer opportunities for precise control over the rotational motion of atoms within the system, with potential applications in precision measurement, quantum information processing, and quantum control.
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- Ali Mehdinejad
- Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
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Skulte J, Kongkhambut P, Rao S, Mathey L, Keßler H, Hemmerich A, Cosme JG. Condensate Formation in a Dark State of a Driven Atom-Cavity System. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 130:163603. [PMID: 37154637 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.163603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2022] [Accepted: 03/14/2023] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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We demonstrate the formation of a condensate in a dark state of momentum states, in a pumped and shaken cavity-BEC system. The system consists of an ultracold quantum gas in a high-finesse cavity, which is pumped transversely by a phase-modulated laser. This phase-modulated pumping couples the atomic ground state to a superposition of excited momentum states, which decouples from the cavity field. We demonstrate how to achieve condensation in this state, supported by time-of-flight and photon emission measurements. With this, we show that the dark state concept provides a general approach to efficiently prepare complex many-body states in an open quantum system.
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- Jim Skulte
- Zentrum für Optische Quantentechnologien and Institut für Laser-Physik, Universität Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
- The Hamburg Center for Ultrafast Imaging, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Zentrum für Optische Quantentechnologien and Institut für Laser-Physik, Universität Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Zentrum für Optische Quantentechnologien and Institut für Laser-Physik, Universität Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Zentrum für Optische Quantentechnologien and Institut für Laser-Physik, Universität Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
- The Hamburg Center for Ultrafast Imaging, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Zentrum für Optische Quantentechnologien and Institut für Laser-Physik, Universität Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Zentrum für Optische Quantentechnologien and Institut für Laser-Physik, Universität Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
- The Hamburg Center for Ultrafast Imaging, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City 1101, Philippines
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Singh M, Fareed MA, Birulia V, Magunov A, Grum-Grzhimailo AN, Lassonde P, Laramée A, Marcelino R, Shirinabadi RG, Légaré F, Ozaki T, Strelkov V. Ultrafast Resonant State Formation by the Coupling of Rydberg and Dark Autoionizing States. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 130:073201. [PMID: 36867796 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.073201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2022] [Accepted: 01/11/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Studying the dynamics of dark states is challenging due to their inability to undergo single-photon emission or absorption. This challenge is made even more difficult for dark autoionizing states owing to their ultrashort lifetime of a few femtoseconds. High-order harmonic spectroscopy recently appeared as a novel method to probe the ultrafast dynamics of a single atomic or molecular state. Here, we demonstrate the emergence of a new type of ultrafast resonance state as a manifestation of coupling between Rydberg and a dark autoionizing state dressed by a laser photon. Through high-order harmonic generation, this resonance results in extreme ultraviolet light emission that is more than one order of magnitude stronger than for the off-resonance case. The induced resonance can be leveraged to study the dynamics of a single dark autoionizing state and the transient changes in the dynamics of real states due to their overlap with the virtual laser-dressed states. In addition, the present results allow the generation of coherent ultrafast extreme ultraviolet light for advanced ultrafast science applications.
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- Mangaljit Singh
- Institut national de la recherche scientifique-Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, 1650 Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Québec J3X 1P7, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA
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- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University), Institutskiy pereulok. 9, Dolgoprudny 141701, Russia
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilova Street, 38, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Institut national de la recherche scientifique-Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, 1650 Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Québec J3X 1P7, Canada
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- Institut national de la recherche scientifique-Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, 1650 Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Québec J3X 1P7, Canada
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- Institut national de la recherche scientifique-Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, 1650 Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Québec J3X 1P7, Canada
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- Institut national de la recherche scientifique-Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, 1650 Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Québec J3X 1P7, Canada
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- Institut national de la recherche scientifique-Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, 1650 Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Québec J3X 1P7, Canada
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- Institut national de la recherche scientifique-Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, 1650 Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Québec J3X 1P7, Canada
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- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University), Institutskiy pereulok. 9, Dolgoprudny 141701, Russia
- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilova Street, 38, Moscow 119991, Russia
- Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 46 Ulyanov Street, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
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Zhang Y, Shan C, Mølmer K. Ultranarrow Superradiant Lasing by Dark Atom-Photon Dressed States. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 126:123602. [PMID: 33834832 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.123602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2020] [Revised: 12/22/2020] [Accepted: 02/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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We show that incoherent pumping of an optical lattice clock system with ultracold strontium-88 atoms produces laser light with a ≃10 Hz linewidth when the atoms are exposed to a magnetic field. This linewidth is orders of magnitude smaller than both the cavity linewidth and the incoherent atomic decay and excitation rates. The narrow lasing is due to an interplay of multiatom superradiant effects and the coupling of bright and dark atom-light dressed states by the magnetic field.
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- Yuan Zhang
- Henan Key Laboratory of Diamond Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Key Laboratory of Material Physics, Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Microelectronics, Zhengzhou University, Daxue Road 75, 450052 Zhengzhou, China
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- Henan Key Laboratory of Diamond Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Key Laboratory of Material Physics, Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Microelectronics, Zhengzhou University, Daxue Road 75, 450052 Zhengzhou, China
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- Center for Complex Quantum Systems, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Chien WC, Hsieh YL, Chen CH, Dubyna D, Wu CS, Kuo W. Optical amplification assisted by two-photon processes in a 3-level transmon artificial atom. OPTICS EXPRESS 2019; 27:36088-36099. [PMID: 31873395 DOI: 10.1364/oe.27.036088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2019] [Accepted: 11/14/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We experimentally study interactions between two microwave fields mediated by 3-level transmon artificial atom with two-photon processes. The transmon has good selection rule, preventing one-photon transition, but allowing two-photon transition from ground state(0) to 2nd excited state(2). By pumping a control tone in resonance to the transition between 1st(1) and 2nd excited state(2), we control the one-photon transparency for 0 to 1 transition and two-photon transparency for 0 to 2 transition. The results are explained by the Autler-Townes splitting induced by the control microwave. In addition, two possible microwave amplification processes involving two-photon processes are also studied. The 4-wave mixing scheme increases the transmission by 3% while 2-photon optical pumping produces a 11% narrowband increment. All these phenomena can be operated with control and probe tones in a narrow band.
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Wen PY, Kockum AF, Ian H, Chen JC, Nori F, Hoi IC. Reflective Amplification without Population Inversion from a Strongly Driven Superconducting Qubit. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2018; 120:063603. [PMID: 29481213 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.063603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2017] [Revised: 12/14/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Amplification of optical or microwave fields is often achieved by strongly driving a medium to induce population inversion such that a weak probe can be amplified through stimulated emission. Here we strongly couple a superconducting qubit, an artificial atom, to the field in a semi-infinite waveguide. When driving the qubit strongly on resonance such that a Mollow triplet appears, we observe a 7% amplitude gain for a weak probe at frequencies in between the triplet. This amplification is not due to population inversion, neither in the bare qubit basis nor in the dressed-state basis, but instead results from a four-photon process that converts energy from the strong drive to the weak probe. We find excellent agreement between the experimental results and numerical simulations without any free fitting parameters. Since our device consists of a single two-level artificial atom, the simplest possible quantum system, it can be viewed as the most fundamental version of a four-wave-mixing parametric amplifier.
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- P Y Wen
- Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
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- Center for Emergent Matter Science, RIKEN, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, University of Macau, Macau
- UMacau Zhuhai Research Institute, Zhuhai, Guangdong 519031, China
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- Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
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- Center for Emergent Matter Science, RIKEN, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
- Physics Department, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1040, USA
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- Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
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Sawant R, Rangwala SA. Lasing by driven atoms-cavity system in collective strong coupling regime. Sci Rep 2017; 7:11432. [PMID: 28900221 PMCID: PMC5595928 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-11799-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2017] [Accepted: 08/30/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The interaction of laser cooled atoms with resonant light is determined by the natural linewidth of the excited state. An optical cavity is another optically resonant system where the loss from the cavity determines the resonant optical response of the system. The near resonant combination of an optical Fabry-Pérot cavity with laser cooled and trapped atoms couples two distinct optical resonators via light and has great potential for precision measurements and the creation of versatile quantum optics systems. Here we show how driven magneto-optically trapped atoms in collective strong coupling regime with the cavity leads to lasing at a frequency red detuned from the atomic transition. Lasing is demonstrated experimentally by the observation of a lasing threshold accompanied by polarization and spatial mode purity, and line-narrowing in the outcoupled light. Spontaneous emission into the cavity mode by the driven atoms stimulates lasing action, which is capable of operating as a continuous wave laser in steady state, without a seed laser. The system is modeled theoretically, and qualitative agreement with experimentally observed lasing is seen. Our result opens up a range of new measurement possibilities with this system.
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- Rahul Sawant
- Light and Matter Physics Group, Raman Research Institute, Sadashivanagar, Bangalore, 560080, India.
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- Light and Matter Physics Group, Raman Research Institute, Sadashivanagar, Bangalore, 560080, India.
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Tian SC, Wan RG, Wang CL, Shu SL, Wang LJ, Tong CZ. Creation and Transfer of Coherence via Technique of Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage in Triple Quantum Dots. NANOSCALE RESEARCH LETTERS 2016; 11:219. [PMID: 27107772 PMCID: PMC4842202 DOI: 10.1186/s11671-016-1433-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2015] [Accepted: 04/13/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We propose a scheme for creation and transfer of coherence among ground state and indirect exciton states of triple quantum dots via the technique of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage. Compared with the traditional stimulated Raman adiabatic passage, the Stokes laser pulse is replaced by the tunneling pulse, which can be controlled by the externally applied voltages. By varying the amplitudes and sequences of the pump and tunneling pulses, a complete coherence transfer or an equal coherence distribution among multiple states can be obtained. The investigations can provide further insight for the experimental development of controllable coherence transfer in semiconductor structure and may have potential applications in quantum information processing.
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- Si-Cong Tian
- State Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Applications, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130033, China.
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- School of Physics and Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710062, China
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- Centre for Advanced Optoelectronic Functional Materials Research and Key Laboratory for UV Light-Emitting Materials and Technology of Ministry of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, 130024, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Applications, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130033, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Applications, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130033, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Applications, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130033, China.
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Koshino K, Terai H, Inomata K, Yamamoto T, Qiu W, Wang Z, Nakamura Y. Observation of the three-state dressed states in circuit quantum electrodynamics. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2013; 110:263601. [PMID: 23848874 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.110.263601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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We have investigated the microwave response of a transmon qubit coupled directly to a transmission line. In a transmon qubit, owing to its weak anharmonicity, a single driving field may generate dressed states involving more than two bare states. We confirmed the formation of three-state dressed states by observing all of the six associated Rabi sidebands, which appear as either amplification or attenuation of the probe field. The experimental results are reproduced with good precision by a theoretical model incorporating the radiative coupling between the qubit and the microwave.
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- K Koshino
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Ichikawa, Chiba 272-0827, Japan
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Oelsner G, Macha P, Astafiev OV, Il'ichev E, Grajcar M, Hübner U, Ivanov BI, Neilinger P, Meyer HG. Dressed-state amplification by a single superconducting qubit. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2013; 110:053602. [PMID: 23414019 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.110.053602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We demonstrate amplification of a microwave signal by a strongly driven two-level system in a coplanar waveguide resonator. The effect, similar to the dressed-state lasing known from quantum optics, is observed with a single quantum system formed by a persistent current (flux) qubit. The transmission through the resonator is enhanced when the Rabi frequency of the driven qubit is tuned into resonance with one of the resonator modes. Amplification as well as linewidth narrowing of a weak probe signal has been observed. The stimulated emission in the resonator has been studied by measuring the emission spectrum. We analyzed our system and found an excellent agreement between the experimental results and the theoretical predictions obtained in the dressed-state model.
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- G Oelsner
- Institute of Photonic Technology, P.O. Box 100239, D-07702 Jena, Germany
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Gaižauskas E, Pentaris D, Efthimiopoulos T, Vaičaitis V. Probing electronic coherences by combined two- and one-photon excitation in atomic vapors. OPTICS LETTERS 2013; 38:124-126. [PMID: 23454936 DOI: 10.1364/ol.38.000124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Wave mixing in a three-level quantum system induced by two-photon resonant pump and one-photon resonant coupling at lower transition has been studied theoretically and experimentally. Resonantly enhanced difference-frequency generation efficiency was observed clearly dependent on the time delay and its sign between the femtosecond pump and probe. The role of the atomic coherences on the amplification without inversion during different sequences of interaction in a closed three-level system has been also stressed. These findings were confirmed experimentally in atomic potassium, where strong parametric amplification, induced by the pump delayed with respect to the probe, has been observed for the first time.
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Marthaler M, Utsumi Y, Golubev DS, Shnirman A, Schön G. Lasing without inversion in circuit quantum electrodynamics. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2011; 107:093901. [PMID: 21929242 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.107.093901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We study the photon generation in a transmission line oscillator coupled to a driven qubit in the presence of a dissipative electromagnetic environment. It has been demonstrated previously that a population inversion in the qubit can lead to a lasing state of the oscillator. Here we show that the circuit can also exhibit the effect of "lasing without inversion." It arises since the coupling to the dissipative environment enhances photon emission as compared to absorption, similar to the recoil effect predicted for atomic systems. While the recoil effect is very weak, and so far elusive, the effect described here should be observable with realistic circuits. We analyze the requirements for system parameters and environment.
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- M Marthaler
- Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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Gao JW, Zhang Y, Ba N, Cui CL, Wu JH. Dynamically induced double photonic bandgaps in the presence of spontaneously generated coherence. OPTICS LETTERS 2010; 35:709-711. [PMID: 20195327 DOI: 10.1364/ol.35.000709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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We study a four-level double-Lambda system with spontaneously generated coherence driven by a standing-wave coupling field. It is found that two well-developed photonic bandgaps with reflectivities of about 90% can be generated on the probe resonance in the presence of maximal spontaneously generated coherence. The induced double photonic bandgaps become, however, severely malformed when spontaneously generated coherence vanishes. Dynamic control of the double photonic bandgaps may be exploited to achieve a novel two-port double-channel routing scheme for weak light signals in quantum networks.
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- Jin-Wei Gao
- College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, China
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Schultz JT, Abend S, Döring D, Debs JE, Altin PA, White JD, Robins NP, Close JD. Coherent 455 nm beam production in a cesium vapor. OPTICS LETTERS 2009; 34:2321-2323. [PMID: 19649084 DOI: 10.1364/ol.34.002321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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We observe coherent, cw, 455 nm blue-beam production via frequency upconversion in cesium vapor. Two IR lasers induce strong double excitation in a heated cesium vapor cell, allowing the atoms to undergo a double cascade and produce a coherent, collimated, blue beam copropagating with the two IR pump lasers.
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- J T Schultz
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics, Department of Quantum Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia.
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Wieczorek S, Chow WW. Self-induced chaos in a single-mode inversionless laser. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2006; 97:113903. [PMID: 17025888 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.97.113903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2006] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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A single-mode inversionless laser with a three-level phaseonium as an active medium can by itself exhibit complex nonlinear dynamics. Nonlinear interaction between two spectrally separated gain regions of the phaseonium and a lasing field gives rise to instabilities and chaotic self-pulsations of a type not observed in conventional lasers with population-inverted gain media. We calculate the bifurcation diagram and uncover multistability and a torus-doubling cascade in transition to chaos.
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Meijer T, White JD, Smeets B, Jeppesen M, Scholten RE. Blue five-level frequency-upconversion system in rubidium. OPTICS LETTERS 2006; 31:1002-4. [PMID: 16599237 DOI: 10.1364/ol.31.001002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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We demonstrate production of continuous coherent blue laser light by using a five-level system in rubidium vapor. Two low-power lasers, at 780 and 776 nm, induce strong atomic coherence in the 5S-5P-5D states. The atoms decay to the 6P excited state, from which stimulated emission produces a coherent blue (420 nm) beam. We have coupled both ground-state hyperfine levels, effecting coherence between four levels. The coherent blue output is enhanced by several mechanisms, including stronger coupling to a larger fraction of the atomic population, operation at a detuning such that the vapor is nominally transparent to the 780 nm pump field, reduced losses owing to optical pumping, and optimal phase matching. We report experimental findings and compare them with results from a semiclassical Maxwell-Bloch model.
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- T Meijer
- School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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Popov AK, Slabko VV. Inversionless amplification by anisotropic molecules. OPTICS LETTERS 2005; 30:1719-21. [PMID: 16075549 DOI: 10.1364/ol.30.001719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Switching from opaque via transparent to a strongly amplifying state is shown to be possible for molecular media without a change in the noninverted population of their energy levels.
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- A K Popov
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, Wisconsin 54481, USA.
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Malyshev VA, Carre o F, Ant n MA, Calder n OG, Dom nguez-Adame F. Superradiance from an ultrathin film of three-levelV-type atoms: interplay between splitting, quantum coherence and local-field effects. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003. [DOI: 10.1088/1464-4266/5/3/318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Mompart J, Corbalan R, Roso L. Coherent population trapping in two-electron three-level systems with aligned spins. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2002; 88:023603. [PMID: 11801012 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.88.023603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The possibility of coherent population trapping in two electron states with aligned spins (orthosystem) is evidenced. From the analysis of a three-level atomic system containing two electrons, and driven by the two laser fields needed for coherent population trapping, a conceptually new kind of dark state appears. The properties of this trapping are physically interpreted in terms of a dark hole, instead of a dark two-electron state. This technique, among many other applications, offers the possibility of measuring, with subnatural resolution, some superposition-state matrix elements of the electron-electron correlation that due to their time dependent nature are inaccessible by standard measuring procedures.
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- Jordi Mompart
- Departament de Física, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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Matsko AB, Novikova I, Scully MO, Welch GR. Radiation trapping in coherent media. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2001; 87:133601. [PMID: 11580586 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.87.133601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We show that the effective decay rate of Zeeman coherence, generated in a (87)Rb vapor by linearly polarized laser light, increases significantly with the atomic density. We explain this phenomenon as the result of radiation trapping. Our study shows that radiation trapping must be taken into account to fully understand many electromagnetically induced transparency experiments with optically thick media.
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Affiliation(s)
- A B Matsko
- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242, USA
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