Enhancement of Kerr nonlinearity via multi-photon coherence Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We propose a new method of resonant enhancement of optical Kerr nonlinearity using multi-level atomic coherence. The enhancement is accompanied by suppression of the other linear and nonlinear susceptibility terms of the medium. We show that the effect results in a modification of the nonlinear Faraday rotation of light propagating in an Rb87 vapor cell by changing the ellipticity of the light.

published proceedings

  • Optics Letters

author list (cited authors)

  • Matsko, A. B., Novikova, I., Welch, G. R., & Zubairy, M. S.

citation count

  • 105

complete list of authors

  • Matsko, AB||Novikova, I||Welch, GR||Zubairy, MS

publication date

  • July 2002