Coherent and dynamic beam splitting based on light storage in cold atoms

Kwang Kyoon Park, Tian Ming Zhao, Jong Chan Lee, Young Tak Chough, Yoon Ho Kim

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Abstract

We demonstrate a coherent and dynamic beam splitter based on light storage in cold atoms. An input weak laser pulse is first stored in a cold atom ensemble via electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT). A set of counter-propagating control fields, applied at a later time, retrieves the stored pulse into two output spatial modes. The high visibility interference between the two output pulses clearly demonstrates that the beam splitting process is coherent. Furthermore, by manipulating the control lasers, it is possible to dynamically control the storage time, the power splitting ratio, the relative phase, and the optical frequencies of the output pulses. With further improvements, the active beam splitter demonstrated in this work might have applications in photonic photonic quantum information and in all-optical information processing.

Original languageEnglish
Article number34279
JournalScientific Reports
Volume6
DOIs
StatePublished - 28 Sep 2016

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