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Cavity-Induced Optical Nonreciprocity Based on Degenerate Two-Level Atoms.
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Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) [Nanomaterials (Basel)] 2024 Jul 23; Vol. 14 (15). Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 23. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- We developed and experimentally realized a scheme of optical nonreciprocity (ONR) by using degenerate two-level atoms embedded in an optical ring cavity. For the degenerate transition F <subscript>g</subscript> = 4 ↔ F <subscript>e</subscript> = 3, we first studied the cavity-transmission property in different coupling field configurations and verified that under the strong-coupling regime, the single-dark-state peak formed by electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) showed ONR. The stable ground-state Zeeman coherence for Λ-chains involved in the degenerate two-level system was found to be important in the formation of intracavity EIT. However, different from the three-level atom-cavity system, in the degenerate two-level system, the ONR effect based on intracavity EIT occurred only at a low probe intensity, because the cavity-atom coupling strength was weakened in the counter-propagating probe and coupling field configuration. Furthermore, ONR transmission with a high contrast and linewidth-narrowing was experimentally demonstrated.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2079-4991
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 15
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 39120341
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/nano14151236