Polarization-selective optical nonlinearities in cold Rydberg atoms

Year: 2015

Authors: Wu JH., Artoni M., La Rocca GC.

Autors Affiliation: NE Normal Univ, Ctr Quantum Sci, Changchun 130117, Peoples R China; European Lab Nonlinear Spect LENS, I-50019 Florence, Italy; Univ Brescia, Dept Engn & Informat Technol, I-25133 Brescia, Italy; Univ Brescia, INO CNR, I-25133 Brescia, Italy; Scuola Normale Super Pisa, I-56126 Pisa, Italy; CNISM, I-56126 Pisa, Italy.

Abstract: We study the interaction between a probe and a trigger weak fields in a sample of cold rubidium atoms in the presence of a coupling and a dressing strong fields. Dipole Rydberg blockade may occur and can be set to depend on the probe and trigger polarizations giving rise to diverse regimes of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) with a concomitant small probe and trigger absorption and dispersion. This is shown to be relevant to the implementation of polarization conditional probe and trigger cross nonlinearities in cold Rydberg atoms.

Journal/Review: PHYSICAL REVIEW A

Volume: 92 (6)      Pages from: 63805-1  to: 63805-10

More Information: This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation (No. 11174110 and No. 61378094), the National Basic Research Program (No. 2011CB921603), and the 111 Project (No. B13013) of China. Jin-Hui Wu acknowledges the hospitality of Scuola Normale Superiore at Pisa.
KeyWords: Quantum; Photons; Light
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.92.063805

Citations: 7
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