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Realization of a single and closed Lambda-system in a room-temperature three-level coherently prepared resonant medium with narrow D 1 hyperfine splittings

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Author(s)

Ke Li, Lu Deng, M G. Payne

Abstract

A single, closed three-state -system in room-temperature rubidium is investigated experimentally using a copropagating beam parallel-polarization configuration under weakly driven electromagnetically induced transparency EITcondition. Compare with the widely used orthogonal-polarization beam EIT configuration where multiple nonclosed -schemes coexist, the parallel-polarizations configuration can completely eliminate the leakage light from the control field. Our state preparation and laser polarization lead to a single and closed -scheme that eliminates the detrimental absorption due to nearby states in atomic species with hyperfine separations smaller than Doppler-broadened line widths, a case where the conventional EIT configuration fails completely.
Citation
Applied Physics Letters
Volume
95
Issue
22

Keywords

electromagnetically induced transparency, state preparation

Citation

Li, K. , Deng, L. and Payne, M. (2009), Realization of a single and closed Lambda-system in a room-temperature three-level coherently prepared resonant medium with narrow D 1 hyperfine splittings, Applied Physics Letters, [online], https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3269997, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=902124 (Accessed October 15, 2025)

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Created November 30, 2009, Updated October 12, 2021
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