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Phase-controlled absorption-gain properties and optical switching in nanodiamond nitrogen-vacancy center

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We study phase-controlled absorption-gain and dynamic switching behaviors in a nanodiamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center. The NV center is driven coherently by a weak probe laser field, a control laser field and a microwave field. To describe the transient behavior of the system, we go beyond the steady-state approximation and simultaneously solve the coupled Bloch–Maxwell equations for the NV center and the probe field on numerical grids as functions of space and time. The results show that the continuous-wave input weak probe field can be switched on and off when the relative phase of the applied field is externally varied periodically in time. The proposed scheme may have applications in the design of optical switching and optical gain devices.

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We gratefully acknowledge encouraging and helpful discussions with Professor Ying Wu. Part of this work has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No. 10975054, No. 11004069, No. 11275074, and No. 91021011, the Doctoral Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China under Grant No. 20100142120081, and the National Basic Research Program of China under Contract No. 2012CB922103.

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  3. Key Laboratory of Fundamental Physical Quantities Measurement of Ministry of Education, Wuhan, 430074, People’s Republic of China

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Li, J.H., Yu, R. & Yang, X. Phase-controlled absorption-gain properties and optical switching in nanodiamond nitrogen-vacancy center. Appl. Phys. B 111, 65–73 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-012-5307-z

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