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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 51: Quantum Effects: QED I

Q 51.5: Vortrag

Donnerstag, 3. März 2016, 12:00–12:15, f442

stopping x-ray pulses in a thin-film cavity — •xiangjin kong and adriana pálffy — Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Saupfercheckweg 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany

Recent years have witnessed the commissioning of coherent x-ray sources opening the new field of x-ray quantum optics [1]. While not yet as advanced as its optical counterpart, x-ray quantum optics may enable coherent control of x-rays, with potential applications for the fields of metrology, material science, quantum information, biology and chemistry. The desirable properties of x-rays are deeper penetration, better focus, no longer limited by an inconvenient diffraction limit as for optical photons, correspondingly spatial resolution, robustness, and the large momentum transfer they may produce. A promising platform for x-ray control are thin-film planar x-ray cavities [2] with embedded layers containing nuclei with a transition resonant to the x-ray pulse.

Here, we demonstrate from the theory side that a spectrally narrow x-ray pulse can be mapped and stored as nuclear coherence through a mechanism reminding of electromagnetically induced transparency in a thin film planar x-ray cavity. The storage time can reach approximate hundred nanoseconds [3]. We anticipate this setup can become a versatile tool for control of spectrally narrow x-ray pulses.

[1] B. W. Adams, et al., Journal of Modern Optics 60.2 (2013)

[2] R. Röhlsberger et al., Nature 482, 199 (2012)

[3] X. Kong, and A. Pálffy, arXiv:1508.06762 (2015)