Storage by trapping and spatial staggering of multiple interacting solitons in Λ-type media

Willem P. Beeker; Christopher J. Lee; Edip Can; Klaus J. Boller

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Storage by trapping and spatial staggering of multiple interacting solitons in Λ-type media

Willem P. Beeker, Christopher J. Lee, Edip Can, Klaus J. Boller

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In this paper we investigate the properties of self-induced transparency (SIT) solitons, propagating in a Λ-type medium. We find that the interaction between SIT solitons can lead to trapping with their phases preserved in the ground-state coherence of the medium. These phases can be altered in a systematic way by the application of appropriate light fields, such as additional SIT solitons. Furthermore, multiple independent SIT solitons can be made to propagate as bisolitons through their mutual interaction with a separate light field. Finally, we demonstrate that control of the SIT soliton phase can be used to implement an optical exclusive-or (xor) gate.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-6
Number of pages	6
Journal	Physical review A: Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
Volume	82
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.82.053839
Publication status	Published - 2010

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Beeker, W., Lee, C. J., Can, E. & Boller, K. J., 2010, 0907.3 ed., ArXiv.org, 7 p. (arXiv.org).
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