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We study electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in the 5s$\rightarrow$5p$\rightarrow$46s ladder system of a cold $^{87}$Rb gas. We show that the resonant microwave coupling between the 46s and 45p states leads to an Autler-Townes…

We consider the dynamics of intracavity electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in an ensemble of strongly interacting Rydberg atoms. By combining the advantage of variable cavity lifetimes with intracavity EIT and strongly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 G. W. Lin , Y. H. Qi , X. M. Lin , Y. P. Niu , S. Q. Gong

A nondegenerate four-level N-type scheme was experimentally implemented to observe electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) at the $^{87}$Rb D$_{2}$ line. Radiations of two independent external-cavity semiconductor lasers were used in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 V. M. Entin , I. I. Ryabtsev , A. E. BoguslavskiI , I. M. Beterov

We present a theoretical model, using density matrix approach, to study the effect of weak as well as strong probe field on the optical properties of an inhomogeneously broadened multilevel V-system of the $^{87}$Rb D2 line. We consider the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-12-04 Paramjit Kaur , Vineet Bharti , Ajay Wasan

Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and absorption (EIA) are quantum coherence phenomena which result due to interference of excitation pathways. Since the first realization of EIT in 1991 and EIA in 1998, mechanisms behind these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-20 Yağız Oyun , Özgür Çakır , Sevilay Sevinçli

Recent experiments have realized an all-optical photon transistor using a cold atomic gas. This approach relies on electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in conjunction with the strong interaction among atoms excited to high-lying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-23 Weibin Li , Igor Lesanovsky

Dicke narrowing is a phenomena that dramatically reduces the Doppler width of spectral lines, due to frequent velocity-changing collisions. A similar phenomena occurs for electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) resonances, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-18 M. Shuker , O. Firstenberg , R. Pugatch , A. Ben-Kish , A. Ron , N. Davidson

We present, experimentally and theoretically, a scheme for dressed-state electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in a three-step cascade system where a four-level system is mapped into an effective three-level system. Theoretical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-09-22 Nikola Šibalić , Jorge M. Kondo , Charles S. Adams , Kevin J. Weatherill

The phenomena of induced transparency, with the typical examples of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in atomic media and those based on coupled optical resonators, have attracted tremendous interest since their discoveries.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Xiao-Bo Yan , Liu Yang , Bing He

We report the phenomena of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and electromagnetically induced absorption (EIA) using two identical beams in rubidium atomic vapor. The {\Lambda}-type EIT configuration is employed to examine the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Lin Cheng , Zhiyuan Xiong , Shuaishuai Hou , Yijia Sun , Chenyu Dong , Fan Wu , Kun Huang

We propose and demonstrate a modulation transfer protocol to increase the detection sensitivity of a Rydberg RF receiver to fields out of resonance from the transition between Rydberg levels. This protocol is based on a phase modulation of…

Controlling the interaction between localized optical and mechanical excitations has recently become possible following advances in micro- and nano-fabrication techniques. To date, most experimental studies of optomechanics have focused on…

Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in terahertz (THz) metamaterials relies on the coherent coupling between a radiative (bright) mode and a subradiant (dark) mode. Understanding the dynamic interplay between the bright and dark…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-18 Amit Haldar , Shriganesh Prabhu , Shovon Pal

Recently, Rydberg atom has emerged as an attractive choice to realize quantum sensing of low-frequency electric field. The progress so far has mostly utilized the intensity and phase changes in probe laser and the corresponding detection…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Ding Wang , Shenchao Jin , Xiayang Fan , Hongjing Li , Jiatian Liu , Jingzheng Huang , Guihua Zeng , Yuan Sun

We experimentally demonstrate the Talbot effect resulting from the repeated self-reconstruction of a spatially intensity-modulated probe field under the Fresnel near-field regime. By launching the probe beam into an optically induced atomic…

A statistical analysis of the laser excitation of cold and randomly distributed atoms to Rydberg states is developed. We first demonstrate with a hard ball model that the distribution of energy level shifts in an interacting gas obeys…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-02-01 Thibault Vogt , Jingshan Han , Alexandre Thiery , Wenhui Li

Nonlinear and nonlocal effects are discussed in the interaction of laser fields with thermal Rydberg atoms in electromagnetically induced transparency configuration. We show that under the crucial approximation that the time variation in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Lida Zhang , Jörg Evers

We implement double electromagnetically-induced transparency (double EIT) in rubidium vapor, using a tripod-shaped energy level scheme consisting of hyperfine and magnetic sublevels of the 5S1/2 to 5P1/2 transition. We show experimentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrew MacRae , Geoff Campbell , A. I. Lvovsky

We present a theoretical model for electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in vapor, that incorporates atomic motion and velocity-changing collisions into the dynamics of the density-matrix distribution. Within a unified formalism we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-06 O. Firstenberg , M. Shuker , R. Pugatch , D. R. Fredkin , N. Davidson , A. Ron

An optical spectroscopic method based on the principle of electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT) is proposed as quite a generic probing tool that provides valuable insights into the nature of Fermi paring in ultracold Fermi gases of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-14 Lei Jiang , Han Pu , Weiping Zhang , Hong Y. Ling