Resonance dispersion and Faraday rotation in self-induced transparency

H. M. Gibbs, G. G. Churchill, G. J. Salamo

杭超, Guoxiang Huang

Zoran M. Ivić, Dalibor Čevizović, Željko Pržulj +2 more

E. Courtens

Giant Faraday and inverse Faraday effects accompanied by no energy loss are predicted for systems undergoing self-induced transparency. The size of these effects is calculated. These effects, and also the large velocity reduction which accompanies transparency, are shown to be intimately related to large energy storage in the resonant material system.

Yu. I. Heller

The influence of spectral interference of different nature on resonant Faraday rotation is studied using as examples the effect of electromagnetically induced transparency in pure discrete atomic transitions and the transparency windows of autoionization resonances of gaseous media. A common numerical criterion for a substantial effect of spectral interference and coherence of atomic transitions on magneto-optical phenomena is established. A direct relationship between the polarization ellipse rotation angle of cw monochromatic light and reduction of the light pulse group velocity resulting from a strong frequency dispersion of the resonant refractive index is found. The known experimental data on ultraslow light pulses indicate the possibility of interference enhancement of the Faraday effect by a factor of 10 6 −10 7 .

H. M. Gibbs, R. E. Slusher