Storage and retrieval of ultraslow optical solitons in coherent atomic system

• 来源期刊: 中国光学快报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2013,（1）
• 页码范围: 78-80
• 页数: 3页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.3788/COL201311.012701

摘要

We investigate the propagation of intense probe pulses in a lifetime broadened A-type three-level atomic system with a configuration of electromagnetically induced transparency.We find that ultraslow optical solitons formed by a balance between dispersion and nonlinearity can be stored and retrieved in the system by switching off and on a control field.Such pulses are robust during storage and retrieval,and hence may have potential applications in optical and quantum information processing.