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 …

A fully numerical method for designing efficient adiabatic mode evolution structures (adiabatic taper, coupler, splitter, mode converter) applicable to complex …

TL Liang, Y Tu, X Chen, Y Huang, Q Bai… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
A fully numerical method for designing efficient adiabatic mode evolution structure
(AMES)(referred to as NAMES) is introduced, which can be applied to adiabatic taper …

Numerical method for designing ultrashort and efficient adiabatic mode converters

T Liang, X Cheng, M Yu, L Zhang, J Shi, W Shao - JOSA B, 2022 - opg.optica.org
This paper proposes a fully numerical method for designing adiabatic mode converters (NM-
AMCs). The proposed method can help compute efficient adiabatic guided-wave shapes for …

Highly efficient broadband conversion of light polarization by composite retarders

SS Ivanov, AA Rangelov, NV Vitanov… - Journal of the Optical …, 2012 - opg.optica.org
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Short-length and robust polarization rotators in periodically poled lithium niobate via shortcuts to adiabaticity

X Chen, HW Wang, Y Ban, SY Tseng - Optics Express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Conventional narrowband spectrum polarization devices are short but not robust, based on
quasi-phase matching (QPM) technique, in periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) crystal …

Broadband Faraday isolator

M Berent, AA Rangelov, NV Vitanov - JOSA A, 2013 - opg.optica.org
Driving on an analogy with the technique of composite pulses in quantum physics, we
theoretically propose a broadband Faraday rotator and thus a broadband optical isolator …

Geometrical optics of a twist-oriented nematic liquid crystal

LS Aslanyan, AL Aslanyan, YS Chilingaryan - Optics and Spectroscopy, 2014 - Springer
We have systematically analyzed the spatial dynamics of the polarization state of light in
smoothly inhomogeneous anisotropic media. As a medium of this kind, we have considered …

Optical-mechanical analogy in problems of polarization optics

AL Aslanyan, LS Aslanyan, SK Nazaryan - Journal of Contemporary …, 2012 - Springer
Within the framework of optical-mechanical analogy, the problem of propagation of polarized
light (both linear and circular) is studied for a medium with the inhomogeneity of dielectrical …