Refractive Index Enhancement in Gases

Abstract

In this project, we have been investigation a new approach for manipulating the refractive index of a gas while maintaining vanishing absorption of the beam. We have recently experimentally demonstrated the key ingredients of this approach in Rubidium vapor where we have observe enhanced refractive index with vanishing absorption. We predict that this approach my also allow obtaining negative refraction with low absorption in atomic systems with far-reaching applications in fields as diverse as optical imaging and quantum computing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 29, 2012
Accession Number
ADA564016

Entities

People

  • Dan Sikes
  • Deniz D. Yavuz
  • Jared Miles
  • Nick Proite
  • Tyler Green
  • Zach Simmons

Organizations

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption
  • Atomic Structure
  • Elements
  • Frequency
  • Ground State
  • Information Processing
  • Laser Beams
  • Magnetic Dipoles
  • Magneto Optical Traps
  • Materials
  • Metals
  • Optical Lattices
  • Optical Tweezers
  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Information
  • Refraction
  • Refractive Index

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Economics
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Quantum spin resonance or Electron Paramagnetic Resonance spectroscopy.

Technology Areas

  • Quantum Computing