Accession Number:

ADP007087

Title:

Electromagnetically Induced Transparency,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

STANFORD UNIV CA EDWARD L GINZTON LAB OF PHYSICS

Personal Author(s):

• Imamoglu, A.
• Boiler, K. -J.
• Harris, S. E.

Report Date:

1992-05-22

Pagination or Media Count:

5.0

Abstract:

We report the first observation of electromagnetically induced transparency in optically thick medium. The transparency results from a destructive interference of two dressed states which are created by applying a temporally smooth coupling laser between a bound state of an atom and the upper state of the transition which is to be made transparent. The transmittance of an autoionizing transition in strontium is changed from exp-20 to exp -1. This paper reports the results of an experimental showing how an opaque transition may be rendered transparent to radiation at its resonance frequency.

Descriptors:

• *COHERENT OPTICAL RADIATION
• *TRANSPARENCE
• TUNABLE LASERS
• RESONANT FREQUENCY
• ELECTROMAGNETISM
• STARK EFFECT
• SHORT WAVELENGTHS
• COHERENT RADIATION
• STRONTIUM
• SYMPOSIA

Subject Categories:

• Optics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE