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Physical Review A

Transfer and computation of optical topological charges via light pulse buffer memory in an electromagnetically-induced-transparency solid

Zhaohui Zhai, Zhixiang Li, Jingjun Xu, Guoquan Zhang

Published Sep 23, 2013• 9 citations
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Abstract

We verified that optical topological charges are conserved in a two-step light-pulse storage and retrieval process based on the electromagnetically-induced-transparency (EIT) effect in a Pr${}^{3+}$:${\mathrm{Y}}_{2}{\mathrm{SiO}}_{5}$ crystal. Based on this conservation law, one could transfer topological charges from the interacting beams, which may not be overlapped in space and time domains, to the targeted output signal beam, and algebraic operations such as summation and subtraction of topological charges carried by the interacting beams were demonstrated via the EIT-assisted two-step light-pulse storage-retrieval process. The results may be useful for classical and quantum information processing based on optical topological charge buffer memory in EIT media.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.88.035807

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