Abstract
We have observed clear Rabi oscillations of a weak probe in a strongly driven three-level system in laser-cooled rubidium. When the coupling field is nonadiabatically switched on using a Pockels cell, transient probe gain without population inversion is obtained in the presence of uncoupled absorptions. Our results are supported by three-state computations.
- Received 17 May 2001
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.64.055801
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