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Optical transparency and nonlinearity for a five-level tripod system involving a Rydberg state
- Source :
- Optical and Quantum Electronics. 52
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- We demonstrate electromagnetically-induced transparency and giant Kerr nonlinearity in a five-level atomic system where the upper level is a Rydberg-state coupled coherently to a four-level tripod subsystem. Since the high Rydberg states exhibit rather long lifetimes, the system evolves into a dark state that is a superposition of all long-lived states resulting in an optical transparency for the probe field. We solve the relevant density matrix equations for the atomic system in steady-state and utilize the perturbation approach to obtain the expressions for the linear and nonlinear susceptibility. It is shown that depending on the system parameters, the system can exhibit triple, double or single, optical transparency. Therefore, there is a resulting change in the sign of linear dispersion for different parametric situations giving, rise to switching in the group velocity of the probe pulse from superluminal to subluminal or vice versa. We also identify the existence of giant third-order Kerr nonlinearities within regions of optical transparency and under the slow light condition.
- Subjects :
- Density matrix
Physics
02 engineering and technology
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Slow light
01 natural sciences
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
010309 optics
Superposition principle
Nonlinear system
symbols.namesake
Dark state
0103 physical sciences
Rydberg formula
symbols
Group velocity
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Atomic physics
Rydberg state
0210 nano-technology
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- ISSN :
- 1572817X and 03068919
- Volume :
- 52
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Optical and Quantum Electronics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........e0bbe9736a6a27915fbc38d25b41ce7c