Nonlinear Optics at Low Light Levels

S. E. Harris; Lene Vestergaard Hau

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4611

Nonlinear Optics at Low Light Levels

S. E. Harris and Lene Vestergaard Hau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4611 – Published 7 June 1999

Abstract

We show how the combination of electromagnetically induced transparency based nonlinear optics and cold atom technology, under conditions of ultraslow light propagation, allows nonlinear processes at energies of a few photons per atomic cross section.

Received 21 December 1998

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4611

Authors & Affiliations

S. E. Harris

Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305

Lene Vestergaard Hau

Rowland Institute for Science, 100 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
and Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138