Self-induced transparency in warm and strongly interacting Rydberg gases

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13626v2
• Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 22:54:25 GMT
• Title: Self-induced transparency in warm and strongly interacting Rydberg gases
• Authors: Zhengyang Bai, Charles S. Adams, Guoxiang Huang, Weibin Li
• Abstract summary: We study dispersive optical nonlinearities of short pulses propagating in high number density, warm atomic vapors. We show that using fast Rabi flopping and strong Rydberg atom interactions, both in the order of gigahertz, can overcome the Doppler effect. In this regime, self-induced transparency emerges when areas of the nanosecond pulse are determined primarily by the Rydberg atom interaction.
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• Abstract: We study dispersive optical nonlinearities of short pulses propagating in high number density, warm atomic vapors where the laser resonantly excites atoms to Rydberg $P$-states via a single-photon transition. Three different regimes of the light-atom interaction, dominated by either Doppler broadening, Rydberg atom interactions, or decay due to thermal collisions between groundstate and Rydberg atoms, are described. We show that using fast Rabi flopping and strong Rydberg atom interactions, both in the order of gigahertz, can overcome the Doppler effect as well as collisional decay, leading to a sizable dispersive optical nonlinearity on nanosecond timescales. In this regime, self-induced transparency (SIT) emerges when areas of the nanosecond pulse are determined primarily by the Rydberg atom interaction, rather than the area theorem of interaction-free SIT. We identify, both numerically and analytically, the condition to realize Rydberg-SIT. Our study contributes to efforts in achieving quantum information processing using glass cell technologies.

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