Self-Stopping of Light

verfasst von

Mikhail Arkhipov, Rostislav Arkhipov, Ihar Babushkin, Nikolay Rosanov

Abstract

Here, we show that light can bring itself to a complete standstill (self-stop) via self-interaction mediated by the resonant nonlinearity in a fully homogeneous medium. An intense few-cycle pulse, entering the medium, may reshape to form a strongly coupled light-matter bundle, in which the energy is transferred from light to the medium and back periodically on the single-cycle scale. Such oscillating structure can decelerate, alter its propagation direction, and even completely stop, depending on the state of its internal degrees of freedom. This phenomenon is expected to occur in the few-cycle strong-field regime when the Rabi oscillation frequency becomes comparable with the frequency of the incoming light.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Quantenoptik
PhoenixD: Simulation, Fabrikation und Anwendung optischer Systeme

Externe Organisation(en)

Staatliche Universität Sankt Petersburg

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Physical review letters

Band

128

ISSN

0031-9007

Publikationsdatum

20.05.2022

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Allgemeine Physik und Astronomie

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.203901 (Zugang: Geschlossen)