New ultra high-speed all-optical coherent D-trigger

Abstract

We study the interaction of two counterpropagating unipolar video pulses of electromagnetic radiation in a dense resonant two-level medium. The pulse durations are less than one oscillation period of an atomic transition. We show that a polariton cluster (i.e. the compact long-living strongly coupled state of electromagnetic field and matter polarisation) is created, when two unipolar video pulses collide in a resonant medium of the frequency ωo (the pulses correspond to self-induced transparency solitons of the same amplitudes and opposite polarities).We studied for the first time multiple recording and erasing of a polariton cluster in a thin layer of a resonant medium (quantum dots) placed on the mirror surface. We showed that dynamics of the medium population difference N(x,t) is analogous to the operation of a D-trigger of the pulse rate 60 000 GHz and higher. We found such a method of the polariton cluster recording and erasing that excludes the accumulation of erasing errors. Therefore, the total duration of the optical D-trigger operation time can strongly exceed the phase relaxation time T2.