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Giant Kerr nonlinearities obtained by electromagnetically induced transparency

Optics Letters · 1996 · Vol. 21(23) · pp. 1936–1936

Holger Schmidt✉(University of California, Santa Barbara)Ataç Îmamoğlu(University of California, Santa Barbara)

Abstract

We analyze a cross-phase modulation (XPM) scheme that exhibits a giant, resonantly enhanced nonlinearity, along with vanishing linear susceptibilities. The proposed atomic system uses an electromagnetically induced transparency and is limited only by two-photon absorption. We predict dramatic improvement by several orders of magnitude for conditional phase shifts in XPM, and the system has possible applications in quantum nondemolition measurements and for quantum logic gates.

Quantum optics and atomic interactions Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research Quantum Information and CryptographyElectromagnetically induced transparencyPhysicsCross-phase modulationKerr nonlinearityKerr effectPhase modulationOpticsSelf-phase modulationPhotonNonlinear optics

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