Controlling the cavity field with enhanced Kerr nonlinearity in three-level atoms
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We experimentally demonstrate cavity field control by another laser beam with three-level L-type atoms inside an optical ring cavity. By adjusting the frequency detuning of the controlling beam ~coupled to one of the atomic transitions!, the intensity of the cavity field interacting with another atomic transition is switched on and off. Such all-optical switching between two steady states is caused by the enhanced Kerr nonlinearity due to atomic coherence in such system.
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