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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 19: Quantum effects: Light scattering and propagation
Q 19.7: Talk
Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 12:00–12:15, DO26 208
High-frequency light reflector via low-frequency light control — •Jörg Evers1,3, Da-Wei Wang2, Shi-Yao Zhu3, and Marlan O. Scully2,4 — 1Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg — 2Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA — 3Beijing Computational Science Research Centre, Beijing 100084, China, China — 4Baylor University, Waco, TX 76706, USA
New approaches to control the flow of light are discussed, which can be operated at high frequencies where conventional optical elements are lacking. We show that high-order nonlinear light-matter interactions can selectively be induced in an electromagnetically induced transparency medium to effectively create a higher-order photonic bad gap structure. This way, the momentum of high-frequency light can be reversed via the atomic coherence created by a control field with substantially lower frequency, effectively forming a mirror. Both the backward retrieval of single photons and of continuous waves are analyzed. A proof-of-principle experiment with thermal 85Rb vapor is proposed, and potential implementations at hard x-ray energies are discussed.
[1] Da-Wei Wang, Shi-Yao Zhu, Jörg Evers, Marlan O. Scully, arXiv:1305.3636 [physics.optics]