ACTA PHOTONICA SINICA
Enhancing Kerr Nonlinearity Via Interacting Dark Resonances
Jianping Song
Abstract
A theoretical investigation was carried out into the program for enhancing the Kerr nonlinearity by interacting double dark states resonances.Using density-matrix equations and perturbative iterative method,the dependence of the real part of the third-order susceptibility on the variation of the additional coherent driving field detuning was derived.It is found that the maximal Kerr nonlinearity induced by interacting dark resonances increases with increment of the detuning and enters gradually the electromagnetically induced transparency window,in which the corresponding linear absorption vanishes,moreover,by utilizing the dressed state theory,physical mechanisms for the results were presented.The realization of the giant Kerr nonlinearity with vanishing absorption is possible in a generic four-level system with double dark resonances.