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Modern Physics Letters B

TRANSIENT AND STEADY-STATE ABSORPTIONS OF A WEAK PROBE FIELD IN A COUPLED DOUBLE QUANTUM-WELL STRUCTURE

Wen‐Xing Yang, JIN XU, Ray‐Kuang Lee

Published Jul 20, 2009• 5 citations
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Abstract

We propose and analyze an efficient scheme for suppressing the absorption of a weak probe field based on intersubband transitions in a four-level asymmetric coupled quantum well (CQW) driven coherently by a probe laser field and a control laser field. We study the steady-state process analytically and numerically, and our results show that the probe absorption can be completely eliminated under the condition of Raman resonance (i.e. two-photon detuning is zero). Besides, we can observe one transparency window without requiring one- or two-photon detuning to exactly vanish. This investigation may provide a possible scheme for EIT in solids by using the CQW.

DOI
10.1142/s0217984909020370

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We propose a method to controllably suppress the effect of the four-wave mixing caused by the coupling of the strong control optical field to both optical transitions in the Λ system under the conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). At sufficiently high atomic density, this process leads to amplification of a weak optical signal field, that is detrimental for the fidelity of any EIT-based quantum information applications. Here we show that an additional absorption resonance centred around the Stokes field frequency, generated in such a four-wave mixing process, may efficiently suppress the unwanted probe amplification without affecting properties of the EIT interaction. We discuss the possibility of creating such tunable absorption using two-photon Raman absorption resonances in the other Rb isotope, and present some preliminary experimental results.