Level mixing induced transparency II. Different transition probabilities of the crossing lines
Academic Article
Overview
Research
Identity
Additional Document Info
Other
View All
Overview
abstract
In one of our previous papers (R.N. Shakhmuratov et al. Appl. Phys. B. 81, 883 (2005)) we presented a new type of spatiotemporal interference of gamma radiation propagating in a resonant medium. The excitation scheme consists of two identical V-schemes, each being formed by one type of the transition: one is induced only by the left circular polarized field and the other by the right circular polarized field. The coupling of these V-schemes through level crossing allows resonant scattering of a photon in the forward direction with a change of its polarization. As a result the radiation field, which is resonant with a transition from the ground state to one of the two sublevels of the excited state, develops in a particular combination of radiation fields with left and right circular polarizations, called a normal mode. This combination is much less absorbed in subsequent layers of the absorber. For identical V-schemes, the structure of the modes is fairly simple. In this paper, we show that a similar reduction of absorption is realized for non-identical V-schemes, differing in transition strengths. The structure of the normal modes is found and they have a more complicated form. This general case is actually realized in a level crossing experiment in gamma optics.