Abstract
The explanation presented by Taichenachev et al. [Phys. Rev. A 011802 (2000)] according to which the electromagnetically induced absorption (EIA) resonances observed in degenerate two-level systems are due to coherence transfer from the excited to the ground state is experimentally tested in a Hanle-type experiment observing the parametric resonance on the line of While EIA occurs in the transition in a cell containing only Rb vapor, collisions with a buffer gas (30 torr of Ne) cause the sign reversal of this resonance as a consequence of collisional decoherence of the excited state. A theoretical model in good qualitative agreement with the experimental results is presented.
- Received 8 November 2002
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.67.043810
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