Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 9, Issue 2, 021405(2011)

Narrowband switchable dual-passband atomic f ilter with four-wave mixing optical amplification

Zheng Tan1,2,3, Xianping Sun1,2, Jun Luo1,2, Yong Cheng1,2,3, Jin Wang1,2, and Mingsheng Zhan1,2
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan 430071, China
  • 2Center for Cold Atom Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
  • 3Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    By using Faraday optical filter combined with four-wave mixing (FWM) amplifier, a narrow bandwidth optical amplifying atomic filter with switchable dual-passband is demonstrated experimentally. The two transmission peaks of the filter correspond to the Stokes and anti-Stokes frequencies, exhibiting a Raman gain in 13- and 17-fold, respectively, with bandwidth of ?120 MHz. By properly setting pump laser detuning, switching between filter passbands is realized. We also investigate the dependence of peak transmission on both pump laser intensity and Rb cell temperature. This atomic filter can find practical applications in long-distance laser communications and laser remote-sensing systems.

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    Zheng Tan, Xianping Sun, Jun Luo, Yong Cheng, Jin Wang, Mingsheng Zhan. Narrowband switchable dual-passband atomic f ilter with four-wave mixing optical amplification[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2011, 9(2): 021405

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    Paper Information

    Received: Aug. 5, 2010

    Accepted: Sep. 28, 2010

    Published Online: Mar. 3, 2011

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    DOI:10.3788/COL201109.021405

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