Fast optical switching via stimulated Raman adiabatic passage. Academic Article

abstract

• We demonstrate a new approach to fast optical switching with a technique based on stimulated Raman adiabatic passage in which a laser pulse switches the probe field on and off via another coupling pulse. This new kind of optical switching is not limited by the decay rate of an excited state and can operate in the subnanosecond time domain. The experimental observation in Rb atomic vapor is in good agreement with numerical simulations.

authors

• Scully, Marlan

published proceedings

• Opt Lett

author list (cited authors)

• Ye, C. Y., Sautenkov, V. A., Rostovtsev, Y. V., & Scully, M. O.

citation count

• 35

complete list of authors

• Ye, CY||Sautenkov, VA||Rostovtsev, YV||Scully, MO

publication date

• November 2003

publisher

• Optica Publishing Group  Publisher

published in

• Optics Letters  Journal

keywords

• 0205 Optical Physics

PubMed Central ID

• 14649945

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1364/ol.28.002213

start page

• 2213

end page

• 2215

volume

• 28

issue

• 22

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ol.28.002213