Browsing by Author "Guo, Jinxian"

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    Atom-Light Hybrid Interferometer
    (APS, 2015-07) Chen, Bing; Qiu, Shuying; Guo, Jinxian; Chen, L. Q.; Ou, Z. Y.; Zhang, Weiping; Department of Physics, School of Science
    A new type of hybrid atom-light interferometer is demonstrated with atomic Raman amplification processes replacing the beam splitting elements in a traditional interferometer. This nonconventional interferometer involves correlated optical and atomic waves in the two arms. The correlation between atoms and light developed with the Raman process makes this interferometer different from conventional interferometers with linear beam splitters. It is observed that the high-contrast interference fringes are sensitive to the optical phase via a path change as well as the atomic phase via a magnetic field change. This new atom-light correlated hybrid interferometer is a sensitive probe of the atomic internal state and should find wide applications in precision measurement and quantum control with atoms and photons.
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    Atom-light superposition oscillation and Ramsey-like atom-light interferometer
    (OSA, 2016-07) Qiu, Cheng; Chen, Shuying; Chen, L. Q.; Chen, Bing; Guo, Jinxian; Ou, Z. Y.; Zhang, Weiping; Department of Physics, School of Science
    Coherent wave splitting is crucial in interferometers. Normally, the waves after this splitting are of the same type. But recent progress in interactions between atom and light has led to the coherent conversion of photon to atomic excitation. This makes it possible to split an incoming light wave into a coherent superposition state of atom and light and paves the way for an interferometer made of different types of waves. Here we report on a Rabi-like coherent-superposition oscillation observed between an atom and light in a Raman process. We construct a new kind of hybrid interferometer based on the atom–light coherent superposition state. Interference fringes are observed in both the optical output intensity and atomic output in terms of the atomic spin wave strength when we scan either or both of the optical and atomic phases. Such a hybrid interferometer can be used to interrogate atomic states by optical detection and will find its applications in precision measurement and quantum control of atoms and light.
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    Extracting the phase information from atomic memory by intensity correlation measurement
    (OSA, 2015-04) Guo, Jinxian; Zhang, Kai; Chen, L. Q.; Yuan, Chun-Hua; Bian, Cheng-ling; Ou, Z. Y.; Zhang, Weiping; Department of Physics, School of Science
    We demonstrate experimentally controlled storage and retrieval of the optical phase information in a higher-order interference scheme based on Raman process in 87Rb atomic vapor cells. An interference pattern is observed in intensity correlation measurement between the write Stokes field and the delayed read Stokes field as the phase of the Raman write field is scanned. This result implies that the phase information of the Raman write field can be written into the atomic spin wave via Raman process in a high gain regime and subsequently read out via a spin-wave enhanced Raman process, thus achieving optical storage of phase information. This technique should find applications in optical phase image storage, holography and information processing.