Super-extended nanofiber-guided field for coherent interaction with hot atoms
- 9 February 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optica
- Vol. 8 (2), 208-215
- https://doi.org/10.1364/optica.413372
Abstract
We fabricate an extremely thin optical fiber that supports a super-extended mode with a diameter as large as 13 times the optical wavelength, residing almost entirely outside the fiber and guided over thousands of wavelengths (5 mm), to couple guided light to warmatomic vapor. This unique configuration balances between strong confinement, as evident by saturation powers as low as tens of nW, and long interaction times with the thermal atoms, thereby enabling fast and coherent interactions. We demonstrate narrowcoherent resonances (tens of MHz) of electromagnetically induced transparency for signals at the single-photon level and long relaxation times (10 ns) of atoms excited by the guided mode. The dimensions of the guided mode's evanescent field are compatible with the Rydberg blockade mechanism, making this platform particularly suitable for observing quantum nonlinear optics phenomena. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing AgreementKeywords
Funding Information
- H2020 Excellent Science (899275)
- Ministry of Defense
- Israel Science Foundation
- Minerva Foundation
- European Research Council (678674)
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
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