Narrowing of electromagnetically induced transparency resonance in a Doppler-broadened medium

Ali Javan, Olga Kocharovskaya, Hwang Lee, and Marlan O. Scully
Phys. Rev. A 66, 013805 – Published 15 July 2002
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Abstract

We derive an analytic expression for the linewidth of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) resonance in a Doppler-broadened system. It is shown here that for relatively low intensity of the driving field the EIT linewidth is proportional to the square root of intensity and is independent of the Doppler width, similar to the laser-induced line narrowing effect described by Feld and Javan. In the limit of high intensity we recover the usual power-broadening case where the EIT linewidth is proportional to the intensity and inversely proportional to the Doppler width.

  • Received 29 October 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.66.013805

©2002 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Ali Javan1,2, Olga Kocharovskaya3,4, Hwang Lee4,5, and Marlan O. Scully2,4

  • 1Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307
  • 2Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, D-85748 Garching, Germany
  • 3Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod 603120, Russia
  • 4Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242
  • 5Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MS 126-347, Pasadena, California 91109

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Vol. 66, Iss. 1 — July 2002

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