MaxwellBloch

Installation

  • Installing MaxwellBloch

Usage

  • Getting Started with the Two-Level Atom
  • Three-Level Atoms
  • Structure and Angular Momentum
  • Spectral Analysis
  • Velocity Classes for Modelling Doppler Broadening in Thermal Systems
  • Counter-Propagating Fields
  • Plotting
  • Built-in Time Functions
  • Scripts for Making Movies

Examples

  • Examples Gallery
  • Two-level
  • Three-level
  • Hyperfine Structure

Support

  • Troubleshooting

API Reference

  • API Reference
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Examples Gallery

All examples at a glance. Jump to the detailed pages via Two-level, Three-level, or Hyperfine Structure.

Example

Scheme

Phenomenon

Linear Absorption — Beer–Lambert Law

2-level

Beer-Lambert law: optical depth, decay, CW and pulsed fields

Self-Induced Transparency: Area Theorem and Solitons

2-level

Self-Induced Transparency: area theorem, solitons, pulse breakup, collision

Two-Level: Two-Pulse Photon Echo

2-level

Photon echo: inhomogeneous dephasing, rephasing, T₂ measurement

Λ-Type Three-Level: EIT, Slow Light and Storage

Λ

EIT, slow light, pulse compression and light storage

Λ-Type Three-Level: Coherent Population Trapping (CPT)

Λ

Coherent Population Trapping (CPT) dark resonance

Λ-Type Three-Level: Adiabatons

Λ

Adiabatons: adiabatic ground-state population transfer

V-Type Three-Level: Simultons

V

V-system simultons: area theorem, soliton formation, optical surfers

Ladder-Type Three-Level: Weak Pulse with Coupling — EIT

Ξ

EIT with weak probe and decay

Three-Level Ladder (Ξ): Autler–Townes Splitting

Ξ

Autler-Townes splitting vs coupling strength

Hyperfine Structure: Weak Pulse, q=1, Decay — Optical Pumping

Rb87 D1

σ⁺ optical pumping, F=1→F’=1

Hyperfine Structure: Sech Pulse 2π, q=1 — Self-Induced Transparency

Rb87 D1

SIT 2π soliton with hyperfine structure

Rb 87 D2: Cycling Transition, σ⁺ Optical Pumping

Rb87 D2

σ⁺ optical pumping, F=2→F’=3 cycling transition

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