Published February 2007 | Version v1
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Tightly localized stationary pulses in a multilevel atomic system

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3 (Singapore)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242 (United States)
  • 3. Theoretical Physics Division, Nankai Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071 (China)
  • 4. National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, 1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 639798 (Singapore)

Description

We show that the pulse matching phenomenon can be obtained in the general multilevel system with electromagnetically induced transparency. For this we find a different way to create tightly localized stationary pulses by using counterpropagating pump fields. The present process is a spatial compression of excitation so that it allows us to shape and further intensify the localized stationary pulses, without using standing waves of pump fields or spatially modulated pump fields

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.023809;
arXiv
arXiv:quant-ph/0606051v4;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
75
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 023809-023809.5
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
39010936
Subject category
S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
COMPRESSION; EXCITATION; OPACITY; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICS; PHOTON-ATOM COLLISIONS; PULSES; STANDING WAVES
Descriptors DEC
ATOM COLLISIONS; COLLISIONS; ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTON COLLISIONS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PUMPING

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Notes
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