Controllable optical switch using a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical cavity

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2011

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American Physical Society

Abstract

The optical bistability of an ultracold atomic ensemble located in a small-volume ultrahigh-finesse optical cavity is investigated. We find that a transverse pumping field can be used to control the bistable behavior of the intracavity photons induced by the input pumping along the cavity axis. This phenomenon can be used as a controllable optical switch.

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PHASE-TRANSITION, SELF-ORGANIZATION, LATTICES, FIELD, MODEL, GAS, Optics, Physics

Citation

Shuai Yang, M. Al-Amri, Joerg Evers and M. Suhail Zubairy. Phys.Rev.A 83 053821 2011. "Copyright (2011) by the American Physical Society."