2003/07/30 by A. Raczynski, A. Raczyński, J. Zaremba +2 · 1 citation
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Terahertz technology and applications #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.69.043801
text +6 figures
arxiv created 2003/07/30 · openalex publication_date 2004/04/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Electromagnetically induced transparency and light storing are discussed in the case of an atomic medium in a double \ensuremathΛ configuration. A polariton description of both phenomena is systematically introduced. Analytic expressions are given which allow one to predict the shapes and phases of both the transmitted pulses and the stored and released ones as well as the atomic coherence in the storage stage. A comparison of the numerical solutions of the Maxwell-Bloch equations with the results due to the polariton model proves a strong predictive power of the latter.