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Published on: February 6, 2014
Ultraslow propagation of squeezed vacuum pulses with electromagnetically induced transparency
Daisuke Akamatsu1, Yoshihiko Yokoi, Manabu Arikawa
1Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan.
Abstract:
We have succeeded in observing ultraslow propagation of squeezed vacuum pulses with electromagnetically induced transparency. Squeezed vacuum pulses (probe lights) were incident on a laser-cooled 87Rb gas together with an intense coherent light (control light). A homodyne method sensitive to the vacuum state was employed for detecting the probe pulse passing through the gas. A delay of 3.1 micros was observed for the probe pulse having a temporal width of 10 micros.
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