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Detuned slow light in the Doppler broadened multi-level D2 line of Rubidium
Yi Chen1, Xiao Gang Wei, Byoung S Ham
1Center for Photon Information Processing, Graduate School of Information and Telecommunications, Inha University, Nam-gu, Incheon, South Korea.
Abstract:
We observed a detuned slow light phenomenon based on electromagnetically induced transparency in (87)Rb D2 line composed of multiple excited-hyperfine states within a Doppler-broadened linewidth. The results show that the maximum group delay of a probe occurs at off-detuned two-photon resonance frequency. The observed detuned group delay is analyzed with numerical calculations for a probe pulse interacting with the neighboring excited-states-modified Doppler broadening atoms for a fixed coupling field. The experimental results are in good agreement with the numerical calculations.
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