TY - JOUR
T1 - Faraday effect in a short pulse propagating in a resonant medium under an ultra-strong magnetic field
AU - Huang, J G
AU - Slavcheva, G
AU - Hess, Ortwin
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - We propose a dynamical model for description of the nonlinear Faraday rotation experienced by a short pulse propagating in a resonant medium subject to an ultra-strong static magnetic field. Under the assumptions of a sufficiently strong external magnetic field, such that the Zeeman splitting of the quantum system energy levels is large compared to the linewidth of the optical transitions involved and the bandwidth of the incident light, the light effectively interacts with a two-level system. Our numerical simulations show that the Faraday effect under these conditions is significantly distinctive from the one caused by weak to moderately strong magnetic field. Nonlinear coherent effects such as inhomogeneous polarization rotation along the pulse duration and an onset of a circularly polarized stimulated emission and coherent ringing have been demonstrated. Some views on the experimental observation of the predicted phenomena are given.
AB - We propose a dynamical model for description of the nonlinear Faraday rotation experienced by a short pulse propagating in a resonant medium subject to an ultra-strong static magnetic field. Under the assumptions of a sufficiently strong external magnetic field, such that the Zeeman splitting of the quantum system energy levels is large compared to the linewidth of the optical transitions involved and the bandwidth of the incident light, the light effectively interacts with a two-level system. Our numerical simulations show that the Faraday effect under these conditions is significantly distinctive from the one caused by weak to moderately strong magnetic field. Nonlinear coherent effects such as inhomogeneous polarization rotation along the pulse duration and an onset of a circularly polarized stimulated emission and coherent ringing have been demonstrated. Some views on the experimental observation of the predicted phenomena are given.
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UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.77.134304
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.134304
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.134304
M3 - Article
SN - 1098-0121
VL - 77
JO - Physical Review B : Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
JF - Physical Review B : Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
IS - 13
M1 - 134304
T2 - Photon08/QEP-18
Y2 - 26 August 2008 through 29 August 2008
ER -