Sum-frequency generation in an ultracold atomic gas due to collective atomic recoil

Robb, G.R.M. and McNeil, B.W.J. (2006) Sum-frequency generation in an ultracold atomic gas due to collective atomic recoil. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 39 (22). 4593. ISSN 0953-4075 (https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/39/22/004)

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Abstract

We describe a method for sum-frequency generation via non-degenerate four-wave mixing in classical (thermal) and quantum ultracold atomic gases (BEC). An integral part of the sum-frequency generation process is a collective instability which spontaneously generates a periodic density modulation in the atomic gas with a period comparable to the wavelength of the generated high-frequency optical field. Due to the generation of this density modulation, phase matching between the pump and generated fields is not a necessary initial condition for this sum-frequency generation process to occur: rather the density modulation acts to `self-phase-match' the fields during the course of the sum-frequency generation process. We describe a one-dimensional model of this process, and suggest a proof-of-principle experiment to demonstrate a regime where the sum-frequency generation process evolves quantum mechanically, with discrete emission of sum-frequency photons. This experiment would involve pumping ultracold Cs atoms in a high-finesse unidirectional cavity with three infrared pump fields to produce blue light as a series of hyperbolic secant pulses.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:31109
    Dates:
    Date
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    28 November 2006
    Published
    Subjects:Science > Physics
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:01 Jul 2011 08:50
    Last modified:08 Apr 2024 19:05
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/31109
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