Tightly localized stationary pulses in a multilevel atomic system

doi:10.1103/PHYSREVA.75.023809

Title: Tightly localized stationary pulses in a multilevel atomic system

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We show that the pulse matching phenomenon can be obtained in the general multilevel system with electromagnetically induced transparency. For this we find a different way to create tightly localized stationary pulses by using counterpropagating pump fields. The present process is a spatial compression of excitation so that it allows us to shape and further intensify the localized stationary pulses, without using standing waves of pump fields or spatially modulated pump fields.

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Liu, Xiong-Jun; Oh, C. H. ^[1]; Liu, Xin ^[2]; Liu, Zheng-Xin ^[3]; Kwek, L. C. ^[1]; National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, 1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 639798 ^[4]

Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3 (Singapore)
Department of Physics, Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242 (United States)
Theoretical Physics Division, Nankai Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071 (China)
(Singapore)

Publication Date:: Thu Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2007

OSTI Identifier:: 20982185

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Resource Relation:: Journal Name: Physical Review. A; Journal Volume: 75; Journal Issue: 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.75.023809; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; COMPRESSION; EXCITATION; OPACITY; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICS; PHOTON-ATOM COLLISIONS; PULSES; STANDING WAVES

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                    Liu, Xiong-Jun, Oh, C. H., Liu, Xin, Liu, Zheng-Xin, Kwek, L. C., and National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, 1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 639798. Tightly localized stationary pulses in a multilevel atomic system.  United States: N. p., 2007. 
        Web.  doi:10.1103/PHYSREVA.75.023809.

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                    Liu, Xiong-Jun, Oh, C. H., Liu, Xin, Liu, Zheng-Xin, Kwek, L. C., & National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, 1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 639798. Tightly localized stationary pulses in a multilevel atomic system.  United States.  doi:10.1103/PHYSREVA.75.023809.

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                    Liu, Xiong-Jun, Oh, C. H., Liu, Xin, Liu, Zheng-Xin, Kwek, L. C., and National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, 1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 639798. Thu .  
        "Tightly localized stationary pulses in a multilevel atomic system".  United States.  
        doi:10.1103/PHYSREVA.75.023809.

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@article{osti_20982185,

  title        = {Tightly localized stationary pulses in a multilevel atomic system},

  author       = {Liu, Xiong-Jun and Oh, C. H. and Liu, Xin and Liu, Zheng-Xin and Kwek, L. C. and National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, 1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 639798},

  abstractNote = {We show that the pulse matching phenomenon can be obtained in the general multilevel system with electromagnetically induced transparency. For this we find a different way to create tightly localized stationary pulses by using counterpropagating pump fields. The present process is a spatial compression of excitation so that it allows us to shape and further intensify the localized stationary pulses, without using standing waves of pump fields or spatially modulated pump fields.},

  doi          = {10.1103/PHYSREVA.75.023809},

  journal      = {Physical Review. A},

  number       = 2,

  volume       = 75,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Thu Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2007},

  month        = {Thu Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2007}

}

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