All-Optical Control of Birefringence in a Cold Atomic Ensemble

Apoorva Apoorva, Naudson Lucas Lopes Matias, Bérengère Pinoche +3

We demonstrate all-optical control of birefringence in a cold atomic cloud of ytterbium. By optically dressing the excited ${}^3{\mathrm{P}}_1$ state via an off-resonant coupling to…