Optimal shape of STIRAP pulses for large dissipation at the intermediate level

Abstract

We study the problem of maximizing population transfer efficiency in the STIRAP system for the case where the dissipation rate of the intermediate state is much higher than the maximum amplitude of the control fields. Under this assumption, the original three-level system can be reduced to a couple of equations involving the initial and target states only. We find the control fields which maximize the population transfer to the target state for a given duration $T$, without using any penalty involving the population of the lossy intermediate state, but under the constraint that the sum of the intensities of the pump and Stokes pulses is constant, so the total field has constant amplitude and the only control parameter is the mixing angle of the two fields. In the optimal solution the mixing angle changes in the bang-singular-bang manner, where the initial and final bangs correspond to equal instantaneous rotations, while the intermediate singular arc to a linear change with time. We show that the optimal angle of the initial and final rotations is the unique solution of a transcendental equation where duration $T$ appears as a parameter, while the optimal slope of the intermediate linear change as well as the optimal transfer efficiency are expressed as functions of this optimal angle. The corresponding optimal solution recovers the counterintuitive pulse-sequence, with nonzero pump and Stokes fields at the boundaries. We also show with numerical simulations that, transfer efficiency values close to the optimal derived using the approximate system, can also be obtained with the original STIRAP system using dissipation rates comparable to the maximum control amplitude.

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