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Volume 115, Number 5, September 2016
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| Article Number | 54002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/115/54002 | |
| Published online | 05 October 2016 | |
Nonlinear manipulation of tunable microwave amplification and attenuation in superconducting circuits
1 College of Science, China Three Gorges University - Yichang 443002, PRC
2 School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology - Wuhan 430074, PRC
Received: 17 August 2016
Accepted: 14 September 2016
We demonstrate the controllable nonlinear microwave modulation in a cyclically driven three-level superconducting Josephson system. By designing two subtle matched conditions in the △-type atom-field configuration, a new physical mechanism – combined action of nonlinear wave mixing and wave interference – is developed and leads to not only amplification but also attenuation for two microwave signals. Our results show that such a nonlinear manipulation of the signal transition from enhancement to damping can be tuned in a large scope by controlling the relative phase and the driving-field frequency and thus the solid-state Josephson system can act as a phase- and frequency-controlled amplitude modulator. Our study opens up a fascinating perspective for its widespread applications in nonlinear optics and quantum information science.
PACS: 42.50.Gy – Effects of atomic coherence on propagation, absorption, and amplification of light; electromagnetically induced transparency and absorption / 42.25.Hz – Interference / 85.25.-j – Superconducting devices
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