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A relation between electromagnetically induced absorption resonances and nonlinear magneto-optics in Lambda-systems

Atomic Physics 2009-11-10 v3

Abstract

Recent work on Lambda-resonances in alkali metal vapors (E. Mikhailov, I. Novikova, Yu. V. Rostovtsev, and G. R. Welch, quant-ph/0309171, and references therein) investigated a type of electromagnetically induced absorption resonance that occurs in three-level systems under specific conditions normally associated with electromagnetically induced transparency. In this note, we show that these resonances have a direct analog in nonlinear magneto-optics, and support this conclusion with a calculation for a J=1->J'=0 system interacting with a single nearly circularly polarized light field in the presence of a weak longitudinal magnetic field.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0310066,
  title  = {A relation between electromagnetically induced absorption resonances and nonlinear magneto-optics in Lambda-systems},
  author = {D. Budker and S. M. Rochester},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0310066},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures v2. revised for clarity and completeness