中国物理B ›› 2015, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (9): 94205-094205.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/24/9/094205

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Vacuum induced transparency and slow light phenomena in a two-level atomic ensemble controlled by a cavity

郭玉杰a b, 聂文杰c   

  1. a Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;
    b Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing 100094, China;
    c Department of Applied Physics, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China
  • 收稿日期:2014-12-26 修回日期:2015-03-13 出版日期:2015-09-05 发布日期:2015-09-05
  • 基金资助:

    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11304010).

Vacuum induced transparency and slow light phenomena in a two-level atomic ensemble controlled by a cavity

Guo Yu-Jie (郭玉杰)a b, Nie Wen-Jie (聂文杰)c   

  1. a Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;
    b Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing 100094, China;
    c Department of Applied Physics, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China
  • Received:2014-12-26 Revised:2015-03-13 Online:2015-09-05 Published:2015-09-05
  • Contact: Guo Yu-Jie E-mail:guoyujie@csrc.ac.cn
  • Supported by:

    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11304010).

摘要:

We study the optical properties of a two-level atomic ensemble controlled by a high-finesse cavity. Even though the cavity is initially in the vacuum state in the absence of external driving, the probe response of the atomic ensemble can be dramatically modified. When the collectively enhanced atom-cavity coupling is strong enough and the cavity decay rate is much smaller than the atomic damping rate, an electromagnetically induced transparency-like coherent phenomenon emerges with a dip absorption for the response of the two-level atoms in the cavity without driving, and thus is called vacuum induced transparency. We also show the slow light with very low group velocity in such an atomic ensemble.

关键词: electromagnetically induced transparency, two-level atomic ensemble, vacuum, slow light

Abstract:

We study the optical properties of a two-level atomic ensemble controlled by a high-finesse cavity. Even though the cavity is initially in the vacuum state in the absence of external driving, the probe response of the atomic ensemble can be dramatically modified. When the collectively enhanced atom-cavity coupling is strong enough and the cavity decay rate is much smaller than the atomic damping rate, an electromagnetically induced transparency-like coherent phenomenon emerges with a dip absorption for the response of the two-level atoms in the cavity without driving, and thus is called vacuum induced transparency. We also show the slow light with very low group velocity in such an atomic ensemble.

Key words: electromagnetically induced transparency, two-level atomic ensemble, vacuum, slow light

中图分类号:  (Effects of atomic coherence on propagation, absorption, and Amplification of light; electromagnetically induced transparency and Absorption)

  • 42.50.Gy
42.25.Bs (Wave propagation, transmission and absorption) 42.50.Pq (Cavity quantum electrodynamics; micromasers)