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Nonlinear optics with stationary pulses of light

A. Andre, M. Bajcsy, A. S. Zibrov, M. D. Lukin

abstract: We show that the recently demonstrated technique for generating stationary pulses of light [Nature {\bf 426}, 638 (2003)] can be extended to localize optical pulses in all three spatial dimensions in a resonant atomic medium. This method can be used to dramatically enhance the nonlinear interaction between weak optical pulses. In particular, we show that an efficient Kerr-like interaction between two pulses can be implemented as a sequence of several purely linear optical processes. The resulting process may enable coherent interactions between single photon pulses.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0410157
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
4 pages, 2 figures
doi:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.063902
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0410157
created:
2004-10-20

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