Controllable optical switch using a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical cavity Academic Article

abstract

• The optical bistability of an ultracold atomic ensemble located in a small-volume ultrahigh-finesse optical cavity is investigated. We find that a transverse pumping field can be used to control the bistable behavior of the intracavity photons induced by the input pumping along the cavity axis. This phenomenon can be used as a controllable optical switch. 2011 American Physical Society.

authors

• Zubairy, Muhammad

published proceedings

• PHYSICAL REVIEW A

author list (cited authors)

• Yang, S., Al-Amri, M., Evers, J., & Zubairy, M. S.

citation count

• 26

complete list of authors

• Yang, Shuai||Al-Amri, M||Evers, Jörg||Zubairy, M Suhail

publication date

• May 2011

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics  Journal

keywords

• Field
• Gas
• Lattices
• Model
• Optics
• Phase-transition
• Physics
• Self-organization

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.053821

URI

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.83.053821

start page

• 053821

volume

• 83

issue

• 5