Controllable ultra-broadband slow light in a warm Rubidium vapor

Details Controllable ultra-broadband slow light in a warm Rubidium vapor Controllable ultra-broadband slow light in a warm Rubidium vapor

2011-07-27

arxiv.org/abs/1107.5432v1

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Quantum Physics

The first two authors contributed equally to this work

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We study ultra-broadband slow light in a warm Rubidium vapor cell. By working between the D1 and D2 transitions, we find a several-nm window centered at 788.4 nm in which the group index is highly uniform and the absorption is small (<1%). We demonstrate that we can control the group delay by varying the temperature of the cell, and observe a tunable fractional delay of 18 for pulses as short as 250 fs (6.9 nm bandwidth) with a fractional broadening of only 0.65 and a power leakage of 55%. We find that a simple theoretical model is in excellent agreement with the experimental results. Using this model, we discuss the impact of the pulse's spectral characteristics on the distortion it incurs during propagation through the vapor.

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