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arXiv:1409.0460 · Physical Review A

Effects of temperature and ground-state coherence decay on enhancement and amplification in a Δ atomic system

Manukumara Manjappa, U. Satya Sainadh, Asha Karigowda, Andal Narayanan, Barry C. Sanders

Published Oct 30, 2014• 29 citations
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Abstract

We study phase-sensitive amplification of electromagnetically induced transparency in a warm $^{85}\mathrm{Rb}$ vapor wherein a microwave driving field couples the two lower-energy states of a $\ensuremath{\Lambda}$ energy-level system thereby transforming into a $\ensuremath{\Delta}$ system. Our theoretical description includes effects of ground-state coherence decay and temperature effects. In particular, we demonstrate that driving-field-enhanced electromagnetically induced transparency is robust against significant loss of coherence between ground states. We also show that for specific field intensities, a threshold rate of ground-state coherence decay exists at every temperature. This threshold separates the probe-transmittance behavior into two regimes: probe amplification vs probe attenuation. Thus, electromagnetically induced transparency plus amplification is possible at any temperature in a $\ensuremath{\Delta}$ system.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.90.043859

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The atomic decoherence effect (DE) on electromagnetically induced transparency(EIT) is studied in the phase-sensitive ∆ system. The DE forces the susceptibility of the medium into negative or positive depending upon the resultant phase and the microwave field strength. In general, the phase-sensitive amplification (PSA) on the probe resonance laser field is induced by the microwave field. The DE plays a major role in tuning the PSA in such a medium. Moreover, we show that the control of the ground state decoherence in a phase-sensitive ∆ system leads to the gain in the output of the probe field. The DE is of great interest in the field of quantum information science, and quantum optics.
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