Electromagnetically induced phase grating.

Opt Lett

Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas-SP, 13083-970, Brazil.

Published: April 2010

I propose an electromagnetically induced phase grating based on the giant Kerr nonlinearity of an atomic medium under electromagnetically induced transparency. The atomic phase grating behaves similarly to an ideal sinusoidal phase grating, and it is capable of producing a pi phase excursion across a weak probe beam along with high transmissivity. The grating is created with arbitrarily weak fields, and diffraction efficiencies as high as 30% are predicted.

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