Sensitive spectroscopy of coherent atomic media Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • A new regime of spectroscopy involving the probing of electromagnetically induced transparency resonances associated with two-photon transitions in dense atomic vapors of three-level atoms driven by strong optical fields is presented. The width of the transmission resonance trans displays a substantial density-dependent narrowing that is only limited by the residual absorption resulting from a coherence decay of the two-photon transition. The dispersive resonances are observed because of the presence of an extra field, which is parametrically generated by a resonantly enhanced three-wave mixing process.

published proceedings

  • Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science (QELS) - Technical Digest Series

author list (cited authors)

  • Lukin, M. D., Fleischhauer, M., Zibrov, A. S., Scully, M. O., Velichansky, V., Hollberg, L., & Robinson, H.

complete list of authors

  • Lukin, MD||Fleischhauer, M||Zibrov, AS||Scully, MO||Velichansky, V||Hollberg, L||Robinson, H

publication date

  • January 1997