Techniques for Coherent Control of Effective Photon-Photon Interactions at Low Light Levels
| dc.contributor.author | Vickers, Cameron | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-01T15:28:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-01T15:28:44Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-02-01 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2019-01-22 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis proposes improvements on techniques for the coherent control of photon-photon interactions mediated by a cloud of cold atoms. Atoms cooled and trapped in a MOT can be loaded into a hollow, photonic crystal waveguide to ensure light coupled into the waveguide is localized on the tightly confined atoms. The low temperature of the atoms decreases decoherence rates, and improves coherent light-matter interactions, such as electromagnetically induced transparency and slow light. Predictions are made for two future experiments using this system, modulating of the phase of a laser beam with a much weaker one, and modulating the transmission of a laser through two photon absorption. These predictions indicate that the phase of a 0.1μW laser beam can be modulated by as much as one milliradian per weak laser photon, and that a 800pW laser beam can modulate the transmission of a comparably powerful laser by as much as 60%. Both of these predictions would be improvements on results for similar experiments performed with warm atoms. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/14454 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.pending | false | |
| dc.publisher | University of Waterloo | en |
| dc.subject | Coherent Control | en |
| dc.subject | Low light levels | en |
| dc.subject | photon-photon interactions | en |
| dc.subject | cold atoms | en |
| dc.title | Techniques for Coherent Control of Effective Photon-Photon Interactions at Low Light Levels | en |
| dc.type | Master Thesis | en |
| uws-etd.degree | Master of Science | en |
| uws-etd.degree.department | Physics and Astronomy | en |
| uws-etd.degree.discipline | Physics (Quantum Information) | en |
| uws-etd.degree.grantor | University of Waterloo | en |
| uws.contributor.advisor | Bajcsy, Michal | |
| uws.contributor.affiliation1 | Faculty of Science | en |
| uws.peerReviewStatus | Unreviewed | en |
| uws.published.city | Waterloo | en |
| uws.published.country | Canada | en |
| uws.published.province | Ontario | en |
| uws.scholarLevel | Graduate | en |
| uws.typeOfResource | Text | en |