Electromagnetically induced transparency in cold rubidium atoms Article

Yan, M, Rickey, EG, Zhu, Y. (2001). Electromagnetically induced transparency in cold rubidium atoms . JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS, 18(8), 1057-1062. 10.1364/JOSAB.18.001057

cited authors

  • Yan, M; Rickey, EG; Zhu, Y

authors

abstract

  • We report experimental studies of electromagnetically induced transparency in Λ-type and ladder-type atomic systems realized in 87Rb atoms cooled and confined in a magneto-optical trap. Complete transparency is observed in the Γ-type system with a moderate coupling field. Comparison between the two systems reveals that at the line center of a weak probe transition, destructive interference occurs for the Γ-type system, whereas constructive interference occurs for the ladder-type system. We discuss conditions of complete transparency in the Λ-type system that contains hyperfine magnetic sublevels. Our experimental measurements for the two systems agree with theoretical calculations based on simple three-level Γ-type and ladder-type models. © 2001 Optical Society of America.

publication date

  • January 1, 2001

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start page

  • 1057

end page

  • 1062

volume

  • 18

issue

  • 8