Electromagnetically induced transparency in rubidium vapor prepared by a comb of short optical pulses
Abstract
It was shown by Kocharovskaya and Khanin [Sov. Phys. JETP 63, 945 (1986)] that a comb of optical pulses can induce a ground-state atomic coherence and change the optical response of an atomic medium. In our experiment, we studied the propagation of a comb of optical pulses produced by a mode-locked diode laser in rubidium atomic vapor. Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) was observed when the pulse repetition rate is a subharmonic of the hyperfine splitting of the ground state. The width of the EIT resonance is determined by the relaxation rate of the ground-state coherence. Possible applications to magnetometery, atomic clocks, and frequency chains are discussed.
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COHERENT DARK STATESULTRASHORT PULSE
POPULATION-INVERSION
QUANTUM
COHERENCE
3-LEVEL MEDIUM
ATOMIC CLOCK
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SPECTROSCOPY
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