Parity-time symmetry light bullets in a cold Rydberg atomic gas

Si Liu Xu; Hong Li; Qin Zhou; Guo Peng Zhou; Dong Zhao; Milivoj R. Belić; Jun Rong He; Yuan Zhao

doi:10.1364/OE.392441

Parity-time symmetry light bullets in a cold Rydberg atomic gas

Si Liu Xu, Hong Li, Qin Zhou, Guo Peng Zhou, Dong Zhao, Milivoj R. Belić, Jun Rong He, Yuan Zhao

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A scheme is proposed to generate stable light bullets (LBs) in a cold Rydberg atomic system with a parity-time (PT) symmetric potential, by utilizing electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). Using an incoherent population pumping between two low-lying levels and spatial modulations of control and auxiliary laser fields, we obtain a two-dimensional (2D) periodic optical potential with PT symmetry. Based on PT symmetry potential and the long-range Rydberg-Rydberg atomic interaction, the system may support slow LBs with low light intensity. Further, it is found that the local and non-local nonlinear coefficients and PT-symmetric potential can be tuned and used to manipulate the behavior of LBs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	16322-16332
Number of pages	11
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	28
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.392441
Publication status	Published - 25 May 2020
Externally published	Yes

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