Nonlinear Optics Using Cold Rydberg Atoms
Abstract
The implementation of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in a cold Rydberg gas provides an attractive route towards strong photon-photon interactions and fully deterministic all-optical quantum information processing. In this brief review we discuss the underlying principles of how large single photon nonlinearities are achieved in this system and describe experimental progress to date.
- Publication:
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Annual Review of Cold Atoms and Molecules
- Pub Date:
- December 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1142/9789814440400_0008
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1205.4890
- Bibcode:
- 2013arca.book..301P
- Keywords:
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- Quantum Physics;
- Physics - Atomic Physics
- E-Print:
- 50 pages, 21 figures. Preprint of book chapter submitted to the Annual Review of cold atoms and molecules \copyright (2012) [copyright World Scientific Publishing Company]