Controllable ultrabroadband slow light in a warm rubidium vapor
Abstract
We study ultrabroadband slow light in a warm rubidium vapor cell. By working between
the D1 and D2 transitions, we find a several-nanometer window centered at 788:4nm
in which the group index is highly uniform and the absorption is small (<1%). We demonstrate
that we can control the group delay by varying the temperature of the cell, and we
observe a tunable fractional delay of 18 for pulses as short as 250 fs (6:9nm bandwidth)
with a fractional broadening of only 0.65 and a power leakage of 55%. We find that
a simple theoretical model is in excellent agreement with the experimental results.
Using this model, we discuss the impact of the pulse's spectral characteristics on
the distortion it incurs during propagation through the vapor. © 2011 Optical Society
of America.
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10.1364/JOSAB.28.002578Publication Info
(2011). Controllable ultrabroadband slow light in a warm rubidium vapor. Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics, 28(11). pp. 2578-2583. 10.1364/JOSAB.28.002578. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/5105.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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