RESEARCH GROUP
Description of Research:
Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is a technique for eliminating the effect of a medium on a propagating beam of electromagnetic radiation. EIT may also be used to eliminate optical self-focusing and to improve the transmission of laser beams through inhomogeneous refracting gases and metal vapors. Of particular interest to our group, EIT may also be used to create large populations of coherently-driven, uniformly-phased atoms, thereby making possible new types of optical frequency converters and oscillators.
Present projects are:
(1) the use of EIT for the generation of biphotons with a length approaching a microsecond.
(2) Modulation of single photons and biphotons.
(3) The experimental demonstration of a quantum-optical effect that we term as nonlocal modulation.
(4) Early work, with the ultimate objective of making entangled photons with a temporal length of a single cycle.
Group Members:
Guang Y. Yin
Senior Research Scientist
650-723-0255
Ph.D. Candidates:
Chimay Belthangady
650-723-2813
Steve Sensarn
650-723-2813
Postdoctoral Fellows:
Irfan Ali Khan
650-723-0228
Chih-Sung Chuu
650-723-0161
Sharon Shwartz
(650) 724-9315
Harris Group Administrator:
Vivian J. Drew
650-723-0225
