Optically Tunable Gratings Based on Coherent Population Oscillation

Abstract We theoretically study the optically tunable gratings based on a L-type atomic medium using coherent population oscillations from the angle of reflection and transmission of the probe field. Adopting a standing-wave driving field, the refractive index of the medium as well as the absorption...

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Autores principales: Xiao-Jun Zhang, Hai-Hua Wang, Lei Wang, Jin-Hui Wu
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/4b3179df9cf84bd4afa416fc9804b2b1
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Sumario:Abstract We theoretically study the optically tunable gratings based on a L-type atomic medium using coherent population oscillations from the angle of reflection and transmission of the probe field. Adopting a standing-wave driving field, the refractive index of the medium as well as the absorption are periodically modified. Consequently, the Bragg scattering causes the effective reflection. We show that different intensities of the control field lead to three types of reflection profile which actually correspond to different absorption/amplification features of the medium. We present a detailed analyses about the influence of amplification on the reflection profile as well. The coherent population oscillation is robust to the dephasing effect, and such induced gratings could have promising applications in nonlinear optics and all-optical information processing.