Coherence transfer between atomic ground states by the technique of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage

Opt Lett. 2008 Oct 15;33(20):2380-2. doi: 10.1364/ol.33.002380.

Abstract

We experimentally and theoretically demonstrate that the atomic coherence can be completely transferred or arbitrarily contributed among the different levels in a four-level atomic (tripod) scheme by a group of coupled pulse sequences. This technique can be applied to the information conversion in slow-light storage, quantum logical gates, and so on, which is based on the atomic coherence effect.