Propagation dynamics of a temporally, amplitude- And group-velocity-matched two-mode ultraslow wave in a three-level a system

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Deng, L ^a   Payne, M G ^a   Hagley, E W ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FOUR WAVE MIXING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCIES; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; QUANTUM THEORY; RESONANCE;

ATOMIC DENSITY; PROPAGATION DYNAMICS; QUANTUM COMPUTING; ULTRASLOW WAVES;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 42749100186     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.063813     Document Type: Article

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38. Although high conversion efficiency can be achieved with ultraslow group velocities, it can also be achieved with fast waves depending on the conditions. In the optically thin medium, the fast-wave scheme can achieve a better conversion efficiency than the slow-wave scheme. In the optically think medium, however, the slow-wave scheme may offer a much better conversion efficiency in some nonlinear processes depending on the excitation schemes.
39. The decay rates used in the Schrödinger picture are, in general, a combination of population and coherence decay rates used in density matrix formalism. The conditions used in the present study ensure the equivalence between Schrödinger wave function formalism and more rigorous density matrix formulism. By constructing density matrix elements using Schrödinger wave function, one obtains the relations between decay rates in two different formulisms.
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