Title:	Optical-bistability-enabled control of resonant light transmission for an atom-cavity system
Authors:	Sawant, Rahul Rangwala, S.A.
Issue Date:	Feb-2016
Publisher:	American Physical Society
Citation:	Physical Review A, 2016 Vol.93, p023806
Abstract:	The control of light transmission through a standing-wave Fabry-Pérot cavity containing atoms is theoretically and numerically investigated, when the cavity mode beam and an intersecting control beam are both close to specific atomic resonances. A four-level atomic system is considered and its interaction with the cavity mode is studied by solving for the cavity field and atomic state populations. The conditions for optical bistability of the atom-cavity system are obtained. The response of the intracavity intensity to an intersecting beam on atomic resonance is understood in the presence of stationary atoms (closed system) and nonstatic atoms (open system) in the cavity. The nonstatic system of atoms is modelled by adjusting the atomic state populations to represent the exchange of atoms in the cavity mode, which corresponds to a thermal environment where atoms are moving in and out of the cavity mode volume. The control behavior with three- and two-level atomic systems is also studied, and the rich physics arising out of these systems for closed and open atomic systems is discussed. The solutions to the models are used to interpret the steady-state and transient behavior observed by Sharma et al
Description:	Open Access
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2289/6425
ISSN:	1050-2947 1094-1622 (online)
Alternative Location:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.00105 http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.93.023806
Copyright:	2016 The American Physical Society
Appears in Collections:	Research Papers (LAMP)

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