Optical attenuation without absorption

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dc.contributor.authorNodurft, I. C.
dc.contributor.authorBrewster, R. A.
dc.contributor.authorPittman, T.B.
dc.contributor.authorFranson, J.D.
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-05T16:01:25Z
dc.date.available2020-08-05T16:01:25Z
dc.date.issued2019-07-25
dc.description.abstractWe consider a coherent state of light propagating through an ensemble of two-level atoms where all the atoms are initially in their ground state. In ordinary absorption, the transition of atoms to their excited state along with the absorption of a photon will remove energy from the beam and attenuate the signal. Here we show that post-selecting on those cases in which none of the atoms made a transition to the excited state can give even more attenuation than would normally occur due to absorption. The same process can also produce amplification when there is a sufficiently strong interaction between the photons and the atoms.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-1802472.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.100.013850en_US
dc.format.extent8 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2pybl-cgtj
dc.identifier.citationI. C. Nodurft, R. A. Brewster, T. B. Pittman, and J. D. Franson, Optical attenuation without absorption, Phys. Rev. A 100 (01) 3850 (2019), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.100.013850en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.100.013850
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/19333
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Physical Society (APS)en_US
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