Photon/spin echo in a Fabry--Perot cavity

Abstract

The pulse area theorem is a well-known versatile analytical tool for capturing the general nonlinear nature of light propagation in a two-level medium. Here we derive the pulse area theorem for the photon/spin echo signal generated in a one-side cavity. The obtained analytical solutions for primary and secondary echo pulse areas allow us to describe the nonlinear patterns of the photon/spin echo signals in an atomic ensemble in a cavity. The developed approach and the obtained results constitute an important step in the study of the general properties of the photon/spin echo in optical and microwave cavities expanding applications of the photon echo in coherent spectroscopy, quantum memory, and processing.

Publication
Opt. Lett.
Sergey Moiseev
Sergey Moiseev
Professor

My research interests include quantum memories, Light-matter interaction, quantum information processing

Ravil Urmancheev
Ravil Urmancheev
Researcher

My research interests include area theorem and rare earth ions.