Using an experimental work on "stopped light" as an example, we show how a classical phenomenon of linear optics - interference of polarized light - can imitate the effect of electromagnetically induced transparency.
@article{arxiv.0811.3348,
title = {On Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in the Degenerate $\Lambda$-scheme},
author = {V. S. Zapasskii},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.3348},
year = {2015}
}