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Published on: November 11, 2013
Observation of large contrast electromagnetically induced absorption resonance due to population transfer in a
Ido Ben-Aroya1, Gadi Eisenstein
1Electrical Engineering Department, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel. bido@tx.technion.ac.il
Abstract:
We describe a new scheme to induce large contrast (nearly 50%) absorption resonances using three co-propagating fields which interact with a three-level Λ-system (obtained by the D(2) transition of (87)Rb atoms) in an N-configuration scheme. A single mode laser which couples the upper ground state to the excited state of (87)Rb is phase modulated at half the hyperfine splitting frequency. The resultant three line spectrum interacts with the atomic vapor yielding a population transfer which increases the absorption by an amount which depends on the carrier to modulation side band intensity ratio.
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