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Superluminal propagation of pulsed pseudo-thermal light in atomic vapor
In-Ho Bae1, Young-Wook Cho, Hee Jung Lee
1Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Busan, Korea.
Abstract:
We report an experimental demonstration of slow and superluminal propagation of pseudo-thermal (chaotic) light in the Λ-type system of the 5S(1/2)-5P(1/2) transition of (87)Rb atom. The slowed propagation of pulsed pseudo-thermal light was demonstrated in an electromagnetically-induced transparency medium while the superluminal propagation was demonstrated with the enhanced absorption scheme where the coupling field takes the form of a standing wave.We have also demonstrated that the photon number statistics of the pseudo-thermal light is preserved for both the subluminal and superluminal cases.
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