Quantum Optics with Coherently Driven Cold Atoms

这项实验研究计划旨在研究冷原子中电磁诱导透明(EIT)所表现出的原子相干和干涉现象，并探索其在非线性光学和量子光学中的相关应用。由于磁光囚禁中可忽略的多普勒展宽和致密的原子密度，冷原子非常适合于所提出的研究，并且可以得到实验测量和理论计算之间的定量比较。一些研究项目，如可能导致光子关联和纠缠的慢光非线性混频、EIT增强的克尔非线性和交叉相位调制、增强EIT非线性的群速度匹配、腔冥想EIT、腔增强的EIT克尔非线性和交叉相位调制将被研究。该项目的更广泛影响涉及学生教育，特别是对大学中代表不足的群体的成员的教育。

This experimental research program is aimed at the study of atomic coherence and interference phenomena manifested by electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in cold atoms and the exploration of related applications in nonlinear optics and quantum optics. Because of the negligible Doppler broadening and the dense atomic density in a magneto-optical trap, cold atoms are well suited for the proposed studies, and quantitative comparison between experimental measurements and theoretical calculations can be obtained. Several research projects such as slow-light nonlinear wave mixing at low light intensities, which may lead to photon correlation and entanglement, EIT enhanced Kerr nonlinearity and cross phase modulation, group velocity matching for enhanced EIT nonlinearity, cavity meditated EIT, cavity enhanced EIT Kerr nonlinearity and cross phase modulations will be studied. The broader impact of the program involves student education, particularly of members of under-represented groups at the university.