Electromagnetically-induced transparency grid in acetylene-filled hollow-core PCF

Benabid, Fetah; Light, P.S.; Couny, F.; Russell, P. St. J.

doi:10.1364/opex.13.005694

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“…Atomic or molecular gasses can be inserted into the core of this photonic waveguide, and PCFs filled with various roomtemperature atomic or molecular gasses have been used for a wide range of applications, such as spectroscopy [12][13][14], nonlinear optics at low light levels [15][16][17][18][19], and gas sensing [20].…”

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Laser-cooled atoms inside a hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber

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We describe the loading of laser-cooled rubidium atoms into a single-mode hollow-core photoniccrystal fiber. Inside the fiber, the atoms are confined by a far-detuned optical trap and probed by a weak resonant beam. We describe different loading methods and compare their trade-offs in terms of implementation complexity and atom-loading efficiency. The most efficient procedure results in loading of ∼30,000 rubidium atoms, which creates a medium with optical depth ∼180 inside the fiber. Compared to our earlier study [1] this represents a six-fold increase in maximum achieved optical depth in this system.

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Laser-cooled atoms inside a hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber

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“…Bandgap HC-PCF also finds applications in soliton generation [14] and pulse compression [44] . As a host for light-matter interactions [16,17] , which is one of the most advanced applications of HC-PCF, bandgap HC-PCF can enhance the interaction intensity by up to a millionfold because of its small core size and low optical attenuation. However, a lot of light-matter interaction phenomena, for example Raman frequency comb generation [26] and high harmonic generation [37] , produce light in a broad frequency range.…”

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Hollow-core photonic crystal fibre for high power laser beam delivery

Wang

Alharbi

Bradley

et al. 2013

High Pow Laser Sci Eng

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We review the use of hollow-core photonic crystal fibre (HC-PCF) for high power laser beam delivery. A comparison of bandgap HC-PCF with Kagome-lattice HC-PCF on the geometry, guidance mechanism, and optical properties shows that the Kagome-type HC-PCF is an ideal host for high power laser beam transportation because of its large core size, low attenuation, broadband transmission, single-mode guidance, low dispersion and the ultra-low optical overlap between the core-guided modes and the silica core-surround. The power handling capability of Kagome-type HC-PCF is further experimentally demonstrated by millijoule nanosecond laser spark ignition and ∼100 µJ sub-picosecond laser pulse transportation and compression.

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“…Furthermore, coherent effects in molecular gases such acetylene have been demonstrated for the first time using CW coupling lasers. These include electromagnetically-induced transparency [4,6] and saturable absorption [37,38].…”

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Light and gas confinement in hollow-core photonic crystal fibre based photonic microcells

Benabid¹,

Roberts²,

Couny³

et al. 2009

J. Eur. Opt. Soc.-Rapid Publ.

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We review the recent progress on the understanding of optical guidance mechanisms in hollow-core photonic crystal fibres, and on the quantum and nonlinear optical applications of photonic microcells based on this fibre form. Two classes of hollow-core photonic crystal fibre are identified: one guides via a photonic bandgap and the other guides by virtue of an inhibited coupling between core and cladding mode constituents. For the former fibre type, we explore how the bandgap is formed using a photonic analogue of the tight-binding model and how it is related to the anti-resonant reflection optical waveguide guidance. For the second type of fibre, which can guide over a broad wavelength range, we examine the nature of the inhibited coupling. We describe a technique for the fabrication of photonic microcells that can accommodate vacuum pressures, and we finish by showing the latest results on electromagnetically induced transparency in a rubidium filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibre, the CW-pumped hydrogen Raman laser and the generation of multi-octave spanning stimulated Raman scattering spectral combs.

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Electromagnetically-induced transparency grid in acetylene-filled hollow-core PCF

Cited by 96 publications

References 25 publications

Laser-cooled atoms inside a hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber

Laser-cooled atoms inside a hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber

Hollow-core photonic crystal fibre for high power laser beam delivery

Light and gas confinement in hollow-core photonic crystal fibre based photonic microcells

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