Friday, March 9, 2012

1112.6136 (Stewart D. Jenkins et al.)

Controlled manipulation of light by cooperative response of atoms in an
optical lattice
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Stewart D. Jenkins, Janne Ruostekoski
We show that a cooperative atom response in an optical lattice to resonant incident light can be employed for precise control and manipulation of light on a subwavelength scale. Specific collective excitation modes of the system that result from strong light-mediated dipole-dipole interactions can be addressed by tailoring the spatial phase-profile of the incident light. We demonstrate how the collective response can be used to produce optical excitations at well-isolated sites on the lattice.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.6136

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