Three-channel all-optical routing in a Pr3+:Y2SiO5 crystal

doi:10.1364/OE.17.012197

Three-channel all-optical routing in a Pr³⁺:Y₂SiO₅ crystal

Hai-hua Wang, Yun-Fei Fan, Rong Wang, Dun-Mao Du, Xiao-Jun Zhang, Zhi-Hui Kang, Yun Jiang, Jin-Hui Wu, and Jin-Yue Gao »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 17, Issue 14, pp. 12197-12202 (2009)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.012197

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We experimentally demonstrate a three-channel all-optical routing based on light storage in a Pr³⁺:Y₂SiO₅ crystal. By switching off the control field under the condition of electromagnetically induced transparency, the optical information of the probe light pulse can be stored in the crystal. When three retrieve control fields are switched on in the release process, the stored optical information from one light channel can be transferred (or distributed) into three different light channels. Also we show that this all-optical routing can be time-delayed. Such a multichannel all-optical routing in solids may have practical applications in quantum information and all-optical network.

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(020.1670) Atomic and molecular physics : Coherent optical effects
(190.0190) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics
(270.1670) Quantum optics : Coherent optical effects

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Quantum Optics

History
Original Manuscript: June 2, 2009
Revised Manuscript: June 16, 2009
Manuscript Accepted: June 21, 2009
Published: July 2, 2009

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Hai-hua Wang, Yun-Fei Fan, Rong Wang, Dun-Mao Du, Xiao-Jun Zhang, Zhi-Hui Kang, Yun Jiang, Jin-Hui Wu, and Jin-Yue Gao, "Three-channel all-optical routing in a Pr³⁺:Y₂SiO₅ crystal," Opt. Express 17, 12197-12202 (2009)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-14-12197

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Appl. Phys. Lett.

H. H. Wang, D. M. Du, Y. F. Fan, A. J. Li, L. Wang, X. G. Wei, Z. H. Kang, Y. Jiang, J. H. Wu, and J. Y. Gao, "Enhanced four-wave mixing by atomic coherence in a Pr3+:Y2SiO5 crystal," Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 231107 (2008). [CrossRef]
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Nature

K. S. Choi, H. Deng, J. Laurat, and H. J. Kimble, "Mapping photonic entanglement into and out of a quantum memory," Nature 452, 67-71 (2008) [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Nature (London)

C. Liu, Z. Dutton, C. H. Behroozi, and L. V. Hau, "Observation of coherent optical information storage in an atomic medium using halted light pulses," Nature (London) 409, 490-493 (2001). [CrossRef]

Opt. Commun.

B. S. Ham, P. R. Hemmer, and M. S. Shahriar, "Efficient electromagnetically induced transparency in a rare-earth doped crystal," Opt. Commun. 144, 227-230 (1997). [CrossRef]

Opt. Express

H. H. Wang, X. G. Wei, L. Wang, Y. J. Li, D. M. Du, J. H. Wu, Z. H. Kang, Y. Jiang, and J. Y. Gao, "Optical information transfer between two light channels in a Pr3+:Y2SiO5 crystal," Opt. Express, 15, 16044-16050 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Opt. Lett.

F. Vewinger, J. Appel, E. Figueroa, and A. I. Lvovsky, "Adiabatic frequency conversion of optical information in atomic vapor," Opt. Lett. 32, 2771-2773 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Phys. Rev. A

B. S. Ham, "Observations of delayed all-optical routing in a slow-light regime," Phys. Rev. A 78, 011808 (2008). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. Lett.

J. Klein, F. Beil, and T. Halfmann, "Robust population transfer by stimulated Raman adiabatic passage in a Pr3+:Y2SiO5 crystal," Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 113003 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
B. S. Ham, and P. R. Hemmer, "Coherence switching in a four-level system: quantum switching," Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4080-4083 (2000). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
A. V. Turukhin, V. S. Sudarshanam, M. S. Shahriar, J. A. Musser, B. S. Ham, and P. R. Hemmer, "Observation of ultraslow and stored light pulses in a solid," Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 023602 (2002). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
D. F. Phillips, A. Fleischhauer, A. Mair, R. L. Walsworth, and M. D. Lukin, "Storage of light in atomic vapor," Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 783-786 (2001).
J. Appel, E. Figueroa, D. Korystov, M. Lobino, and A. I. Lvovsky, "Quantum memory for squeezed light," Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 093602 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
K. Honda, D. Akamatsu, M. Arikawa, Y. Yokoi, K. Akiba, S. Nagatsuka, T. Tanimura, A. Furusawa, and M. Kozuma, "Storage and retrieval of a squeezed vacuum," Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 093601 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Rev. Mod. Phys.

M. Fleischhauer and A. Imamoglu, "Electromagnetically induced transparency: Optics in coherent medium," Rev. Mod. Phys. 77, 633-673 (2005). [CrossRef]

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