Atomic spin-wave control and spin-dependent kicks with shaped subnanosecond pulses
arXiv:2010.16066 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043418
Abstract
The absorption of traveling photons resonant with electric dipole transitions of an atomic gas naturally leads to electric dipole spin wave excitations. For a number of applications, it would be highly desirable to shape and coherently control the spatial waveform of the spin waves before spontaneous emission can occur. This paper details a recently developed optical control technique to achieve this goal, where counter-propagating, shaped sub-nanosecond pulses impart sub-wavelength geometric phases to the spin waves by cyclically driving an auxiliary transition. In particular, we apply this technique to reversibly shift the wave vector of a spin wave on the line of laser-cooled Rb atoms, by driving an auxiliary transition with shape-optimized pulses, so as to shut off and recall superradiance on demand. We investigate a spin-dependent momentum transfer during the spin-wave control process, which leads to a transient optical force as large as /ns, and study the limitations to the achieved spin wave control efficiency by jointly characterizing the spin-wave control and matterwave acceleration. Aided by numerical modeling, we project potential future improvements of the control fidelity to the level when the atomic states are better prepared and by equipping a faster and more powerful pulse shaper. Our technique also enables a background-free measurement of the superradiant emission to unveil the precise scaling of the emission intensity and decay rate with optical depth.
arXiv commentJointly submitted with arXiv:1910.02289. Improved presentation with reduced overlapping contents
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