Session W2: Focus Session: Slowing and Stopping Light

8:00 AM–10:36 AM, Saturday, June 9, 2007
TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod D

Chair: D. Tokaryk, University of New Brunswick

Abstract ID: BAPS.2007.DAMOP.W2.2

Abstract: W2.00002 : Observation of Quantum Destructive Interference in Inelastic Two-Wave Mixing.

8:36 AM–9:12 AM

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Author:

  L. Deng
    (National Institute for Standards and Technology)

Using room-temperature $^{87}$Rb atoms we demonstrate a quantum destructive interference between two one-photon excitation pathways in an inelastic two-wave mixing scheme that corresponds to the ``strong-storage and weak-retrieval" of an optical field. This destructive interference is fundamentally different from the usual electromagnetically-induced-transparency because it is critically dependent on the generation and propagation of a wave-mixing field. We also show that contrary to the common belief, that the maximum atomic coherence in general does not lead to the maximum mixing-wave conversion efficiency.

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