Electro-optic control of atom-light interactions using Rydberg dark-state polaritons

Details Electro-optic control of atom-light interactions using Rydberg dark-state polaritons Electro-optic control of atom-light interactions using Rydberg dark-state polaritons

2007-09-10

arxiv.org/abs/0709.1342v1

Phys. Rev. A. 77, 032305 (2008)

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages. 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.77.032305

We demonstrate a multiphoton Rydberg dark resonance where a Lambda-system is coupled to a Rydberg state. This N-type level scheme combines the ability to slow and store light pulses associated with long lived ground state superpositions, with the strongly interacting character of Rydberg states. For the nd_{5/2} Rydberg state in 87Rb (with n=26 or 44) and a beam size of 1 mm we observe a resonance linewidth of less than 100 kHz in a room temperature atomic ensemble limited by transit-time broadening. The resonance is switchable with an electric field of order 1 V/cm. We show that, even when photons with different wavevectors are involved, the resonance can be Doppler-free. Applications in electro-optic switching and photonic phase gates are discussed.

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