Transfer of orbital angular momentum of light using two component slow light

Abstract

We study the manipulation of slow light with an orbital angular momentum propagating in a cloud of cold atoms. Atoms are affected by four copropagating control laser beams in a double tripod configuration of the atomic energy levels involved, allowing to minimize the losses at the vortex core of the control beams. In such a situation the atomic medium is transparent for a pair of copropagating probe fields, leading to the creation of two-component (spinor) slow light. We study the interaction between the probe fields when two control beams carry optical vortices of opposite helicity. As a result, a transfer of the optical vortex takes place from the control to the probe fields without switching off and on the control beams. This feature is missing in a single tripod scheme where the optical vortex can be transferred from the control to the probe field only during either the storage or retrieval of light.

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• Stationary pulses of light in an atomic medium
• Non-Abelian gauge potentials for ultra-cold atoms with degenerate dark states
• Quantum memory for squeezed light
• Photon-Photon Interactions via Rydberg Blockade
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• Stationary Light Pulses in Cold Atomic Media
• Stationary Light Pulses without Bragg Gratings
• Collapses and revivals of stored orbital angular momentum of light in a cold atomic ensemble
• Demonstration of the Interaction between Two Stopped Light Pulses
• Dark-State Polaritons for multi-component and stationary light fields
• Slow light with integrated gain and large pulse delay
• Slow polaritons with orbital angular momentum in atomic gases
• Bose-Einstein condensation of stationary-light polaritons
• Polarisation rotation of slow light with orbital angular momentum in ultracold atomic gases
• Beam splitting and Hong-Ou-Mandel interference for stored light
• Diffusion induced decoherence of stored optical vortices
• Quantum memory for light via stimulated off-resonant Raman process: beyond the three-level Lambda-scheme approximation
• Photonic band-gap properties for two-component slow light
• Controlling statistical properties of stored light
• Topological stability of stored optical vortices

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