Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage in physics, chemistry, and beyond

NV Vitanov, AA Rangelov, BW Shore… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
The technique of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP), which allows efficient and
selective population transfer between quantum states without suffering loss due to …

Perspective: Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage: The status after 25 years

K Bergmann, NV Vitanov, BW Shore - The Journal of chemical physics, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The first presentation of the STIRAP (stimulated Raman adiabatic passage) technique with
proper theoretical foundation and convincing experimental data appeared 25 years ago, in …

Picturing stimulated Raman adiabatic passage: a STIRAP tutorial

BW Shore - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2017 - opg.optica.org
The procedure of stimulated-Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP), one of many well-
established techniques for quantum-state manipulation, finds widespread application in …

Analog to electromagnetically induced transparency and Autler-Townes effect demonstrated with photoinduced coupled waveguides

C Ciret, M Alonzo, V Coda, AA Rangelov… - Physical Review A …, 2013 - APS
It is shown that light transfer between two evanescently coupled optical waveguides can be
interrupted when strong interaction with a third waveguide is induced. In the strong …

Broadband adiabatic light transfer in optically induced waveguide arrays

C Ciret, V Coda, AA Rangelov, DN Neshev… - Physical Review A …, 2013 - APS
We demonstrate experimentally the broadband and adiabatic light transfer in coupled
waveguides based on multiple stimulated Raman adiabatic passage. Our experimental …

Adiabatic three-waveguide coupler

HS Hristova, AA Rangelov, G Montemezzani… - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
We propose an adiabatic method for transfer of light in a three-waveguide directional
coupler in a single mode. In our scheme the propagation coefficients of the two outer …

Complete achromatic optical switching between two waveguides with a sign flip of the phase mismatch

W Huang, AA Rangelov, E Kyoseva - Physical Review A, 2014 - APS
We present a two-waveguide coupler which realizes complete achromatic all-optical
switching. The coupling of the waveguides has a hyperbolic-secant shape, while the phase …

Control of adiabatic light transfer in coupled waveguides with longitudinally varying detuning

H Oukraou, L Vittadello, V Coda, C Ciret, M Alonzo… - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
We study adiabatic light transfer in systems of two coupled waveguides with spatially varying
detuning of the propagation constants, providing an analogy to the quantum phenomena of …

Broadband photonic transport between waveguides by adiabatic elimination

H Oukraou, V Coda, AA Rangelov, G Montemezzani - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
We propose an adiabatic method for the robust transfer of light between the two outer
waveguides in a three-waveguide directional coupler. Unlike the established technique …

Double rapid adiabatic passage in three optical waveguides with longitudinally varying detunings

J Chen, L Deng, Y Niu, S Gong - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
In this paper, optical simulation of double rapid adiabatic passage (RAP) is investigated in
three evanescently coupled waveguides with longitudinally varying detunings of the …