Vacuum-Induced Transparency
Photons are excellent information carriers but normally pass through each other without consequence. Engineered interactions between photons would enable applications as varied as quantum information processing and simulation of condensed matter systems. Using an ensemble of cold atoms strongly coup...
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| author | Chen, Wenlan Landig, Renate Vuletic, Vladan Tanji-Suzuki, Haruka Simon, Jonathan |
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| description | Photons are excellent information carriers but normally pass through each other without consequence. Engineered interactions between photons would enable applications as varied as quantum information processing and simulation of condensed matter systems. Using an ensemble of cold atoms strongly coupled to an optical cavity, we found that the transmission of light through a medium may be controlled with few photons and even by the electromagnetic vacuum field. The vacuum induces a group delay of 25 nanoseconds on the input optical pulse, corresponding to a light velocity of 1600 meters per second, and a transparency of 40% that increases to 80% when the cavity is filled with 10 photons. This strongly nonlinear effect provides prospects for advanced quantum devices such as photon number–state filters. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/885802022-09-30T11:29:21Z Vacuum-Induced Transparency Chen, Wenlan Landig, Renate Vuletic, Vladan Tanji-Suzuki, Haruka Simon, Jonathan Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms Chen, Wenlan Landig, Renate Vuletic, Vladan Photons are excellent information carriers but normally pass through each other without consequence. Engineered interactions between photons would enable applications as varied as quantum information processing and simulation of condensed matter systems. Using an ensemble of cold atoms strongly coupled to an optical cavity, we found that the transmission of light through a medium may be controlled with few photons and even by the electromagnetic vacuum field. The vacuum induces a group delay of 25 nanoseconds on the input optical pulse, corresponding to a light velocity of 1600 meters per second, and a transparency of 40% that increases to 80% when the cavity is filled with 10 photons. This strongly nonlinear effect provides prospects for advanced quantum devices such as photon number–state filters. National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant PHY-0855052) National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant PHY-0551153) United States. Army Research Office (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. QuASAR Program) 2014-08-07T15:22:20Z 2014-08-07T15:22:20Z 2011-08 2011-05 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0036-8075 1095-9203 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88580 Tanji-Suzuki, H., W. Chen, R. Landig, J. Simon, and V. Vuletic. “Vacuum-Induced Transparency.” Science 333, no. 6047 (September 1, 2011): 1266-1269. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1521-5365 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9786-0538 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1208066 Science Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) arXiv |
| spellingShingle | Chen, Wenlan Landig, Renate Vuletic, Vladan Tanji-Suzuki, Haruka Simon, Jonathan Vacuum-Induced Transparency |
| title | Vacuum-Induced Transparency |
| title_full | Vacuum-Induced Transparency |
| title_fullStr | Vacuum-Induced Transparency |
| title_full_unstemmed | Vacuum-Induced Transparency |
| title_short | Vacuum-Induced Transparency |
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