Slow light, superadiabaticity and shape-preserving pulses

2005/06/17 by U. Leonhardt, Ulf Leonhardt, Leonhardt, U. +3
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0506147

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Abstract

We analyze the nonlinear dynamics of atomic dark states in Lambda configuration that interact with light at exact resonance. We found a generalization of shape-preserving pulses [R. Grobe, F. T. Hioe, and J. H. Eberly, Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 3183 (1994)] and show that the condition for adiabaticity of the atomic dynamics is never violated, as long as spontaneous emission is negligible.

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