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Observation of electromagnetically induced transparency

K.-J. Boller, A. Imamoğlu, and S. E. Harris
Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 2593 – Published 20 May 1991
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Abstract

We report the first demonstration of a technique by which an optically thick medium may be rendered transparent. 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 (ultraviolet) transition in Sr is changed from exp(-20) without a coupling laser present to exp(-1) in the presence of a coupling laser.

  • Received 12 December 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.2593

©1991 American Physical Society

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K.-J. Boller, A. Imamoğlu, and S. E. Harris

  • Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305

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Vol. 66, Iss. 20 — 20 May 1991

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