All optical waveguiding in a coherent atomic rubidium vapor

Praveen K. Vudyasetu, David J. Starling, John C. Howell

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Abstract

We demonstrate an all optical waveguide imprinted by a low power Laguerre Gaussian control laser beam using a coherent Raman process in warm atomic rubidium vapor. We show that the signal beam propagates with a small spot size over several diffraction lengths. We also show that the coupling efficiency of the signal beam into the waveguide varies linearly with the signal power.

Original languageEnglish
Article number123602
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume102
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 23 Mar 2009
Externally publishedYes

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