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Propagation and modulation of Airy beams through a four-level electromagnetic induced transparency atomic vapor
Fei Zhuang1, Jianqi Shen, Xinyue Du
1Department of Physics and Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 310036, China.
Abstract:
We study the propagation properties of an Airy beam through a four-level electromagnetic induced transparency (EIT) atomic vapor. The analytical expression for the Airy beam passing through the ABCD optical system of the EIT vapor is deduced and employed to analyze the propagation characteristics of the beam. It is shown that both the deflection position and the intensity of the Airy beam can be modulated by the Rabi frequency of the control light. Such a tunable optical behavior may have some potential applications in medicine science.
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