Photon Wave-packet Manipulation via Dynamic Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Multilayer Structures
arXiv:0908.0243 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.81.013836
Abstract
We present a Maxwell-Bloch description of the dynamics of a light pulse propagating through a spatially inhomogeneous system consisting of alternating layers of EIT media and vacuum. We study the effect of a dynamical modulation of the EIT control field on the shape of the wave packet: interesting effects due to the presence of interfaces with group velocity mismatch are found. An effective description based on a continuity equation is developed. Modulation schemes that can be realized in ultracold atomic samples with standard experimental techniques are proposed and discussed.
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