Coherent Control of Light-Shifts and Application to Slow-Light and Pulse Amplification

Author

Bouchene, M.A. ; Delagnes, J.-C. ; Hashmi, F.A.

Author_Institution

Univ. Paul Sabatier, Toulouse

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

The interaction of strong laser fields with matter causes light-shifts that play an important role in many fields as quantum optics, molecular physics and chemistry. Here the control results from the interference between two excitation quantum paths, corresponding to the absorption and to the emission by the dressed atomic system of one photon from/on the weak field mode respectively. This effect paves the way to many applications and we will describe a new method to slow the light in an atomic medium.

Keywords

light absorption; light coherence; light interference; optical variables control; coherent control; excitation quantum paths; light absorption; light emission; light interference; light shifts; pulse amplification; slow light; strong laser fields interaction; Atom optics; Chemical lasers; Chemistry; Laser theory; Lighting control; Optical control; Optical pulses; Physics; Pulse amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386839

Filename

4386839