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We demonstrate a velocity selection scheme that mitigates suppression of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) by Doppler shifts for low--high EIT probe--coupling wavelength ordering. An optical pumping beam counter-propagating…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 Wenchao Xu , Brian DeMarco

The combination of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) with the nonlinear interaction between Rydberg atoms provides an effective interaction between photons. In this paper, we investigate the storage of optical pulses as…

Rydberg blockade physics in optically dense atomic media under the conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) leads to strong dissipative interactions between single photons. We introduce a new approach to analyzing this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-18 Emil Zeuthen , Michael J. Gullans , Mohammad F. Maghrebi , Alexey V. Gorshkov

The advantage of optical bistability (OB) using three-level electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) atomic system over the two-level system is its controllability, as absorption, dispersion, and optical nonlinearity in one of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Juan D. Serna , Amitabh Joshi

We demonstrate a synthetic gauge phase in Rydberg electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) using room-temperature rubidium vapor. By exploiting polarization selection rules in a ladder-type system involving ground, intermediate, and…

We investigate the dynamics of a generic interacting many-body system under conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). This problem is of current relevance due to its connection to non-linear optical media realized by…

We report on the observation of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) with intrinsic phase transitions in a three-level ladder system within rubidium atomic vapor. The observed abrupt transitions between low and high Rydberg…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-16 Lin Cheng , Kun Huang , Chunhui Shao , Fan Wu , Zhiyuan Xiong , Yanpeng Zhang

We demonstrate electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in a four-level cascade system where the upper level is a Rydberg state. The observed spectral features are sub-Doppler and can be enhanced due to the compensation of Doppler…

We examine the influence of a static dc electric field on Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) resonances that involve highly excited Rydberg states. Our focus is on how these resonances are altered when the relative orientation…

We demonstrate electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in a four-level cascade-like system, where the two upper levels are Rydberg states coupled by a microwave field. A two-photon transition consisting of an off-resonant microwave…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Thibault Vogt , Christian Gross , Thomas F. Gallagher , Wenhui Li

Rydberg electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) enables realization of atom-based SI-traceable microwave (MW) sensing, imaging and communication devices by exploiting the strong microwave electric dipole coupling of highly excited…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-08-09 Aurélien Chopinaud , Jonathan D. Pritchard

Multi-photon electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT) of atomic vapors involves several intermediate atomic levels. The sub-structure of these levels and their collisional interactions can drastically alter experimental EIT signals.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Alisher Duspayev , Georg Raithel

Resonant dipole-dipole interaction (RDDI) is ubiquitous in light-matter interacting systems and is responsible for many fascinating properties of collective radiations. Here we theoretically investigate the role of RDDI in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 H. H. Jen , G. -D. Lin , Y. -C. Chen

We report on rubidium vapor-cell Rydberg electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in a 0.7~T magnetic field where all involved levels are in the hyperfine Paschen-Back regime, and the Rydberg state exhibits a strong diamagnetic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 L. Ma , D. A. Anderson , G. Raithel

We present an experimental study of cavity assisted Rydberg atom electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) using a high-finesse optical cavity ($F \sim 28000$). Rydberg atoms are excited via a two-photon transition in a ladder-type EIT…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Jiteng Sheng , Yuanxi Chao , Santosh Kumar , Haoquan Fan , Jonathon Sedlacek , James P. Shaffer

The strong non-linear optical response of atomic systems in electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) states is considered as a means to detect the presence of small perturbations to steady states. For the 3-level system, expressions…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Aneesh Ramaswamy , Svetlana A. Malinovskaya

We report the experimental observation of a cross-Kerr nonlinearity in a free-space medium based on resonantly-excited, interacting Rydberg atoms and electromagnetically induced transparency. The nonlinearity is used to implement…

We develop a fully quantum treatment of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in a vapor of three-level $\Lambda$-type atoms. Both the probe and coupling lasers with arbitrary intensities are quantized, and treated on the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Le-Man Kuang , Guang-Hong Chen , Yong-Shi Wu

We present a non-invasive spectroscopic technique to measure electric fields in plasma, leveraging large polarizabilities and Stark shifts of Rydberg atoms. Rydberg Stark shifts are measured with high precision using narrow-linewidth lasers…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Bineet Dash , Xinyan Xiang , Dingkun Feng , Eric Paradis , Georg Raithel

We study the dark-time decay of the retrieval efficiency for light stored in a Rydberg state in an ultracold gas of $^{87}$Rb atoms based on electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). Using low atomic density to avoid dephasing caused…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-20 Steffen Schmidt-Eberle , Thomas Stolz , Gerhard Rempe , Stephan Dürr