• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 15, Issue 9, 092702 (2017)
Tiantian Liu, Gongwei Lin*, Fengxue Zhou, Li Deng, Shangqing Gong, and Yueping Niu
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  • College of Physics, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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    Tiantian Liu, Gongwei Lin, Fengxue Zhou, Li Deng, Shangqing Gong, Yueping Niu. Tunable interaction-free all-optical switching in a five-level atom-cavity system[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15(9): 092702 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A scheme is proposed for tunable all-optical switching based on the double-dark states in a five-level atom-cavity system. In the scheme, the output signal light of the reflection and the transmission channels can be switched on or off by manipulating the control field. When the control light is coupled to the atom-cavity system, the input signal light is reflected by the cavity. Thus, there is no direct coupling between the control light and the signal light. Furthermore, the position of the double-dark states can be changed by adjusting the coherent field, and, thus, the switching in our scheme is tunable. By presenting the numerical calculations of the switching efficiency, we show that this type of the interaction-free all-optical switching can be realized with high switching efficiency.
    H=k=1NΔ|5k5|+k=1N(gaσ12(k)+Ω1σ23(k)+Ω2σ34(k)+Ω3σ54(k)+H.c.)+i(ξpaeiΔptξp*aeiΔpt),(1)

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    H=ΔS5S5+gN(aS2+S2a)+Ω1(S2S3+S3S2)+Ω2(S3S4+S4S3)+Ω3(S4S5+S5S4)+i(ξpaeiΔptξp*aeiΔpt).(2)

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    a˙=(iΔp+κ)aigNS2+ξp+2κain(t),(3a)

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    S˙2=(iΔp+γ22)S2igNaiΩ1S3+γ2ζ2(t),(3b)

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    S˙3=iΔpS3iΩ1S2iΩ2S4,(3c)

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    S˙4=iΔpS4iΩ2S3iΩ3S5,(3d)

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    S˙5=[i(ΔpΔ)+γ52]S5iΩ3S4+γ5ζ5(t),(3e)

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    a˙=(iΔp+κ)aigNS2+ξp,(4a)

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    S˙2=(iΔp+γ22)S2igNaiΩ1S3,(4b)

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    S˙3=iΔpS3iΩ1S2iΩ2S4,(4c)

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    S˙4=iΔpS4iΩ2S3iΩ3S5,(4d)

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    S˙5=[i(ΔpΔ)+γ52]S5iΩ3S4.(4e)

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    a=ξpiΔp+κ+g2NiΔp+γ2+Ω12iΔp+Ω22iΔp+Ω32i(ΔpΔ)+γ2.(5)

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    Tiantian Liu, Gongwei Lin, Fengxue Zhou, Li Deng, Shangqing Gong, Yueping Niu. Tunable interaction-free all-optical switching in a five-level atom-cavity system[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15(9): 092702
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