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Title: Tightly localized stationary pulses in a multilevel atomic system

Abstract

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.

Authors:
;  [1];  [2];  [3];  [1];  [4]
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  1. Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3 (Singapore)
  2. Department of Physics, Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242 (United States)
  3. Theoretical Physics Division, Nankai Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071 (China)
  4. (Singapore)
Publication Date:
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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DOI:  10.1103/PHYSREVA.75.023809
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