Journal of Modern Optics

Electromagnetically induced transparency in cavity optomechanical system with -type atomic medium

Teng Qi, Yan Han, Ling Zhou

Published Mar 1, 2013• 12 citations

Abstract

We study an ensemble of identical -type atoms confined inside a cavity optomechanical system. We show that when the atoms have no absorption and dispersion the output field of the optomechanical system present a transparency phenomenon. The oscillation of the mirror does not affect the transparency of the atomic medium while the existence of the atomic medium results in two transparency windows of the output cavity field. We also show that the frequency of the oscillation mirror affects the analogy transparency of the output cavity field.

DOI: 10.1080/09500340.2013.782430

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