Cavity electromagnetically induced transparency and all-optical switching using ion Coulomb crystals

Details Cavity electromagnetically induced transparency and all-optical switching using ion Coulomb crystals Cavity electromagnetically induced transparency and all-optical switching using ion Coulomb crystals

2011-02-24

arxiv.org/abs/1102.5010v1

Nature Photon. 5, 633 (2011)

Physics

Quantum Physics

Scientific paper

10.1038/nphoton.2011.214

The control of one light field by another, ultimately at the single photon level, is a challenging task which has numerous interesting applications within nonlinear optics and quantum information science. Due to the extremely weak direct interactions between optical photons in vacuum, this type of control can in practice only be achieved through highly nonlinear interactions within a medium. Electromagnetic induced transparency (EIT) constitutes one such means to obtain the extremely strong nonlinear coupling needed to facilitate interactions between two faint light fields. Here, we demonstrate for the first time EIT as well as all-optical EIT-based light switching using ion Coulomb crystals situated in an optical cavity. Unprecedented narrow cavity EIT feature widths down to a few kHz and a change from essentially full transmission to full absorption of the probe field within a window of only ~100 kHz are achieved. By applying a weak switching field, we furthermore demonstrate nearly perfect switching of the transmission of the probe field. These results represent important milestones for future realizations of quantum information processing devices, such as high-efficiency quantum memories, single-photon transistors and single-photon gates.

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