Coupled cavities for enhancing the cross-phase-modulation in electromagnetically induced transparency

We propose an optical double-cavity resonator whose response to a signal is similar to that of an electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) medium. A combination of such a device with a four-level EIT medium can serve for achieving large cross-Kerr modulation of a probe field by a signal field. This would offer the possibility of building a quantum logic gate based on photonic qubits. We discuss the technical requirements that are necessary for realizing a probe-photon phase shift of π caused by a single-photon signal. The main difficulty is the requirement of an ultralow reflectivity beam splitter, and we must be able to operate a sufficiently dense cool EIT medium in a cavity.