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Optics Communications

Light storage in a tripod medium as a basis for logical operations

Karolina Słowik, Andrzej Raczyński, Jarosław Zaremba, S. Zielińska-Kaniasty

Published Jan 23, 2012• 14 citations
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10.1016/j.optcom.2012.01.014

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Light propagation and storing in a medium of atoms in the tripod configuration driven by two control pulses are investigated theoretically in terms of two polaritons and numerically. It is shown that a magnetic field switched on at the pulse storage stage changes the phase relations between the atomic coherences due to the stored pulse, which leads to an essential modification of the released pulse. Quantitative relations concerning the released pulse and the coherences are given. A general situation when the two control fields are not proportional at the pulse release stage is also examined. It is shown that in both cases a single dark state polariton is not sufficient to account for the pulse evolution, which is connected with the fact that a part of the signal remains in the medium after the release stage.