Two-way interconversion of millimeter-wave and optical fields in Rydberg gases

We show that cold Rydberg gases enable an efficient six-wave mixing process where terahertz or microwave fields are coherently converted into optical fields and vice versa. This process is made possible by the long lifetime of Rydberg states, the strong coupling of millimeter waves to Rydberg transi...

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Main Authors: Martin Kiffner, Amir Feizpour, Krzysztof T Kaczmarek, Dieter Jaksch, Joshua Nunn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2016-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/9/093030