Enhanced self-action effects by electromagnetically induced transparency in the two-level atom
Abstract
Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) has been studied primarily within the context of multilevel atomic systems. We show that EIT can occur also in a two-level atomic system and can lead to strong self-action and slow-light effects that are not hampered by material absorption, with important potential implications for processes such as squeezed-light generation and the propagation of optical solitons.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- March 2001
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.63.033804
- Bibcode:
- 2001PhRvA..63c3804B
- Keywords:
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- 42.50.Gy;
- 32.80.-t;
- 42.50.Hz;
- Effects of atomic coherence on propagation absorption and amplification of light;
- electromagnetically induced transparency and absorption;
- Photon interactions with atoms;
- Strong-field excitation of optical transitions in quantum systems;
- multiphoton processes;
- dynamic Stark shift