Ultra-dispersive adaptive prism

Abstract

We have experimentally demonstrated an ultra-dispersive optical prism made from coherently driven Rb atomic vapor. The prism possesses spectral angular dispersion that is six orders of magnitude higher than that of a prism made of optical glass; it is the highest spectral angular dispersion that has ever been shown (such angular dispersion allows one to spatially resolve light beams with different frequencies separated by a few kHz). The prism operates near the resonant frequency of atomic vapor and its dispersion is optically controlled by a coherent driving field.

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• Stationary pulses of light in an atomic medium
• Wavelength-scale stationary-wave integrated Fourier-transform spectrometry
• Electromagnetically induced transparency controlled by a microwave field
• A Stern-Gerlach experiment for slow light
• Optical imaging beyond the diffraction limit via dark states
• Electromagnetically induced coherent backscattering
• Spectral Narrowing via Quantum Coherence

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