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Applied Optics

Giant Goos–Hänchen shift in two different enantiomers’ chiral molecules via quantum coherence

Rajab Nasehi, Mohammad Mahmoudi

Published Sep 10, 2018• 6 citations
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Abstract

The Goos and Hänchen (GH) shifts in reflected and transmitted probe light through a cavity mixture of left- and right-handed chiral molecules into two enantiomer states are investigated. Due to the broken mirror symmetry of the left- and right-handed chiral molecules in the presence of cyclic population transfer, such quantum systems can be selectively excited because of the coexistence of one- and two-photon transitions. With the help of coupling Rabi frequency and damping effects due to scattering processes, the generated GH shifts accompanied by simultaneously negative and positive lateral shifts in reflected and transmitted probe lights are greatly enhanced. It is found that the large negative and positive GH shifts are available in the presence of multiphoton resonance and off-resonance conditions for two different enantiomers' chiral molecules. Moreover, the switching between superluminal and subluminal light propagation is extremely dependent on choosing the left- and right-handed chiral molecules. Furthermore, the effects of pulse shape and mode of Laguerre-Gaussian probe light on the GH shifts that lead to a switch between negative and positive shift are also studied. The negative and positive GH shifts in a reflected and transmitted probe beam for an incident Gaussian and different mode of Laguerre-Gaussian shaped beam with various widths by the use of two different enantiomers' chiral molecules are also discussed.

DOI
10.1364/ao.57.007714

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The Goos and Hänchen (GH) shifts in reflected and transmitted probe light through a cavity mixture of left- and right-handed chiral molecules into two enantiomer states are investigated. Due to the broken mirror symmetry of the left- and right-handed chiral molecules in the presence of cyclic population transfer, such quantum systems can be selectively excited because of the coexistence of one- and two-photon transitions. With the help of coupling Rabi frequency and damping effects due to scattering processes, the generated GH shifts accompanied by simultaneously negative and positive lateral shifts in reflected and transmitted probe lights are greatly enhanced. It is found that the large negative and positive GH shifts are available in the presence of multiphoton resonance and off-resonance conditions for two different enantiomers' chiral molecules. Moreover, the switching between superluminal and subluminal light propagation is extremely dependent on choosing the left- and right-handed chiral molecules. Furthermore, the effects of pulse shape and mode of Laguerre-Gaussian probe light on the GH shifts that lead to a switch between negative and positive shift are also studied. The negative and positive GH shifts in a reflected and transmitted probe beam for an incident Gaussian and different mode of Laguerre-Gaussian shaped beam with various widths by the use of two different enantiomers' chiral molecules are also discussed.
The role of a chiral quantum-dot molecule (QDM) system in controlling and enhancing the Goos-H\"anchen (GH) shift is revealed here. The proposed setup is a four-level atomic system excited by incoherent pump and probe fields where the electron tunneling is prominent in affecting the GH shift upon the reflection and transmission of probe beams. The GH shifts in the chiral QDM system are calculated analytically by using stationary phase theory, whereas the dynamics of the quantum-dot system are derived by the density-matrix method. It is demonstrated that the GH shifts through transmission and reflection light beams are strongly influenced due to right-circularly polarized (RCP) and left-circularly polarized light. The GH shifts through RCP light are enhanced in the presence of chiral QDM systems, and these shifts could become either highly negative or highly positive, sensitively depending on the electron tunneling and chiral coefficients. This proposal can be viewed as a theoretical approach to the potential application of GH shifts in nano-optoelectronic sensors.
The behavior of the Goos-Hanchen (GH) shifts in the reflected and transmitted light beam which is incident on a cavity containing an intracavity medium of three-level or four-level atoms with electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is discussed. We report a coherent control of the GH shift in a fixed configuration or device via superluminal and subluminal wave propagation. For superluminal wave propagation, we observe negative GH shifts in the reflected part of the incident light whereas the shifts are positive in the transmitted light beam. This corresponds to the negative group index of the cavity in the former case and positive group index of the cavity in the latter. For subluminal wave propagation, the behavior of the GH shifts in the reflected light changes and positive shifts appear
The behavior of the Goos-H\"anchen (GH) shifts in the reflected and transmitted light beam which is incident on a cavity containing an intracavity medium of three-level or four-level atoms with electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is discussed. We report a coherent control of the GH shift in a fixed configuration or device via superluminal and subluminal wave propagation. For superluminal wave propagation, we observe negative GH shifts in the reflected part of the incident light whereas the shifts are positive in the transmitted light beam. This corresponds to the negative group index of the cavity in the former case and positive group index of the cavity in the latter. For subluminal wave propagation, the behavior of the GH shifts in the reflected light changes and positive shifts appear; however, the GH shifts in the transmitted light remains positive. The corresponding group index of the cavity is positive in both cases.
Controlling of the Goos-Hänchen (GH) shifts of the reflected and transmitted probe pulses through a cavity containing four-level GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dot with 15 periods of 17.5 nm GaAs wells and 25-nm Al 0.3 Ga 0.7 As barriers is investigated. Under appropriate conditions, the probe absorption can be converted to the probe gain, therefore, the controlling of negative and positive GH shift in the both reflected and transmitted probe beams can be occurred simultaneously. Our obtained results show that the group index of the probe beams could be negative or positive in both reflected and transmitted pulses. Therefore, simultaneous subluminal or superluminal light propagation in reflected and transmitted pulses can be achieved.
Abstract We study the effect of the Goos–Hänchen (GH) shifts through a cavity with degenerate two-level systems in the line of . For this purpose, we focus on the transverse magnetic field (TMF) in a Floquet frame to obtain the giant GH shifts. Physically, the collisional effects of TMF lead to increasing the population trapping in the ground state. However, we demonstrate that the population trapping generates the large negative or positive GH shifts and simultaneously switches from superluminal to subluminal (or vice versa). Also, we investigate the other optical properties such as the longitudinal magnetic field (LMF), which plays an important role in the control of the GH shifts and leads to the generation of new subsystems. In the next step, we evaluate the GH shifts beyond the multi-photon resonance condition by the control of TMF. Moreover, we compute the appearance of negative and positive GH shifts by setting the width of the incident Gaussian beams in the presence of a multi-photon resonance condition. Our results show that superluminal or subluminal light propagation can be simultaneously controlled by adjusting the rates of the TMF and LMF. The significant effects of these factors on the degenerate two-level systems provide different applications such as slow light, optical switches and quantum information storage.
Abstract We present a new scheme to report on the effects of a five-level chiral atomic medium on the lateral Goos–Hänchen (GH) shift in Gaussian probe beams via Kerr nonlinearity (KNL) and local field effects. The physical realization of birefringence in absorption, dispersion, reflection and transmission beams is investigated, with special emphasis on the manipulation of absolute and fractional change in lateral GH shifts in birefringence transmission and reflection beams, via local fields and Kerr nonlinearity. We have employed a semiclassical atomic density-matrix formalism so as to obtain the expression for electric and magnetic susceptibilities of the chiral medium and the corresponding chirality coefficients in conjunction with Kerr and local fields, both separately and in combination. Stationary-phase theory is used to compute GH shift from the calculated birefringent reflection and transmission coefficients of probe beams. A negative and positive GH shift is observed in reflection and transmission beams, respectively, subjected to local field and Kerr effect. In contrast, a positive GH shift is observed in both reflection and transmission beams in the presence of both local field and Kerr effects. The local and Kerr fields also alter the divergence angle between left and right circularly polarized birefringence beams. GH shift depends on incident angle and probe detuning. The anisotropy of medium is lessened by switching ON the Kerr field in the medium. We observed a positive fractional change of ±30% in the GH shift in the birefringence reflection beam in the presence of a local field without KNL, while a 20% fractional GH shift was observed in the presence of both local field and KNL effects. Our results suggest promising applications in nonlinear optical, plasmonic and biophotonic devices for the manipulation of light propagation and optical signal processing.