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Paper   IPM / P / 17125
School of Physics
  Title:   Transfer of Orbital Angular Momentum of Light Using Autler-Townes Splitting
  Author(s): 
1.  S.H. Asadpour
2.  H.R. Hamedi
3.  E. Paspalakis
  Status:   Published
  Journal: Photonics
  Vol.:  9(12)
  Year:  2022
  Pages:   954
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
We propose a scheme to exchange optical vortices beyond electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) but based on four-wave mixing (FWM) in a five-level atomic system consisting of two Λ subsystems linked via a weak driving field. When the laser fields are strong enough, the quantum interference responsible for the EIT in each Λ subsystem is washed out, giving rise to the Autler-Townes splitting (ATS). When only one of the control fields carries an optical vortex, it is shown that the generated FWM field obtains the vorticity of the vortex control. We distinguish between three different regimes, ie, a pure EIT, a joint EIT-ATS, and a dual-ATS, where the optical angular momentum (OAM) translation can take place. Elaborating on the distinction between three regimes through numerical analysis, we find that the maximum energy conversion efficiency is obtained in the joint EIT-ATS and dual-ATS regimes. The latter is more favorable as the absorption losses vanish as the beam propagates into the atomic cloud. The results may find applications in the implementation of high-efficient frequency and OAM conversion devices for quantum information processing.

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