Avoidance of instability of a superluminal Gaussian light pulse via control of nonlinear coherence Kerr effect in a gain-assisted medium

TL;DR

This paper explores how nonlinear Kerr effects can stabilize superluminal light pulses in a gain-assisted atomic system, enabling controllable anomalous dispersion and overcoming instability issues.

Contribution

It demonstrates that Kerr-induced coherence can suppress instability and significantly enhance superluminal pulse propagation in a gain medium.

Findings

Achieved at least 30 ms increase in group velocity compared to Kerr-free systems

Enabled multiple controllable anomalous dispersion regions

Reduced pulse distortion during superluminal propagation

Abstract

We investigate nonlinear Kerr-induced coherence effect on a superluminal probing light pulse in a gain-assisted N-type 4-level atomic system via an intense monochromatic laser field. The dispersion exhibits a novel, interesting and useful two-paired double gain lines processes. The system displays lossless characteristics similar to [L. J. Wang, A. Kuzmich, A. Dogariu, Nature \textbf{406}, 277 (2000)] but with advantages of \emph{multiple} \textbf{controllable} anomalous regions, \emph{significantly enhanced} superluminal behavior and \textbf{relaxed} temperature, states of matter regardless of its isotropic or anisotropic conditions. Unlike the instability in [A. M. Akulshin, S. Barreiro, and A. Lezama, Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{82}, 4277 (1999)], the present system also \emph{overcomes the instable-limit} by the Kerr-induced coherence effect in the system. Indeed, the coherence enhances the group velocity remarkably by at least $-30 ms$ more than of an instable Kerr-free system with almost negligible distortion in the retrieved pulse.