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Achieving induced transparency with one- and three-photon destructive interference in a two-mode, three-level, double-L system

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Author(s)

Lu Deng, M G. Payne

Abstract

We show that in a two-mode, three-level, double-L system an efficient multiphoton destructive interference involving one- and three-photon pumping pathways occurs, leading to a unique type of induced transparency. Unlike the conventional electromagnetically induced transparency achieved with a three-state L system, the induced transparency is critically dependent upon two distinctive relaxation processes involving the production and propagation of an internally generated field. When a two-mode probe field is injected under suitable conditions, we show that the two probe pulses, after a characteristic propagation distance, evolve into a pair of temporal, amplitude, and group velocity matched pulse, traveling loss free in a highly dispersive medium.
Citation
Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics)
Volume
71
Issue
1

Keywords

induced transparency, destructive interference

Citation

Deng, L. and Payne, M. (2005), Achieving induced transparency with one- and three-photon destructive interference in a two-mode, three-level, double-L system, Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics), [online], https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.71.011803 (Accessed October 18, 2025)

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Created January 28, 2005, Updated November 10, 2018
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