The propagation of light through an ultracold atomic gas is the main topic of the present work.
The thesis consists of two parts.
In Part I (Chapters 1,2,3), we give a complete description of the 1D photonic bands of a MI of two-level atoms paying attention to both band diagrams and reflectivity spectra. The role of regular periodicity of the system is addressed within a polariton formalism. The scattering on defects inside lattices of three-level atoms is also studied in view of optical detection of impurities in such structures. The light is used as a probe of systems engineered by the use of other laser beams.
Part II (Chapters 4,5) is devoted to the development of a general framework for the time-dependent processing of a propagating slow Dark Polariton in a spatially inhomogeneous system. The coherently tunable atomic gas acts as a Dynamic Photonic Structure. Applications of this concept concerning wavelength conversion and reshaping of the pulse are also discussed for realistic experimental situations.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unitn.it/oai:iris.unitn.it:11572/368762 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Bariani, Francesco |
| Contributors | Bariani, Francesco, Carusotto, Iacopo |
| Publisher | Università degli studi di Trento, place:TRENTO |
| Source Sets | Università di Trento |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | firstpage:1, lastpage:142, numberofpages:142 |
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