Two-level system in a sinusoidal field

N. E. Nevesskiǐ

J.V. Moloney, M. K. Ali, William J. Meath

A. Muriel

Stefano Longhi

It is theoretically shown that the tunnelling dynamics of light between two sinusoidally curved coupled optical waveguides of different sizes exactly mimics the population dynamics of a two-level system with nonzero diagonal dipole matrix elements subjected to an applied sinusoidal electric field, thus realizing an optical analogue of a two-level dipolar molecule in an external ac field. Some characteristic dynamical features, including multi-photon transitions, sinusoidal population oscillations built up in a series of stair steps or square-wave population oscillations, are reproduced in the optical waveguide system. Design parameters for their observation are given with reference to lithium-niobate optical waveguides.

Li Yongfang

In the dressed state picture,the transition process and the time evolution dynamic process of a two-level system excited by the sinusoidal phase-modulated shaping pulse are investigated with the Bloch vector sphere schematic diagram.The results show that when a two-level system is interacted with the proper sinusoidal phase shaping pulse,the population is inversed and remained in same state and is irrelevant of the!shaping pulse.During the interaction between field and system,the adiabatic states of particles are variant with the different circumstances of light field phase under the adiabatic condition.

V. Yu. Finkel'Shteǐn