0602197v1

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{time, decoherence, evolution}

Coherent Control of Stationary Light Pulses

F. E. Zimmer, A. André, M. D. Lukin, M. Fleischhauer

abstract: We present a detailed analysis of the recently demonstrated technique to generate quasi-stationary pulses of light [M. Bajcsy {\it et al.}, Nature (London) \textbf{426}, 638 (2003)] based on electromagnetically induced transparency. We show that the use of counter-propagating control fields to retrieve a light pulse, previously stored in a collective atomic Raman excitation, leads to quasi-stationary light field that undergoes a slow diffusive spread. The underlying physics of this process is identified as pulse matching of probe and control fields. We then show that spatially modulated control-field amplitudes allow us to coherently manipulate and compress the spatial shape of the stationary light pulse. These techniques can provide valuable tools for quantum nonlinear optics and quantum information processing.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0602197
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
27 pages, 10 figures
doi:
10.1016/j.optcom.2006.03.075
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0602197
created:
2006-02-23

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