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EIT Based Gas Detector Design by Using Michelson Interferometer

Karim Abbasian, A. Rostami, M. H. Abdollahi, Muhammed Hasan Aslan, Ahmet Yayuz Oral, Mehmet Özer, Süleyman Hikmet Çağlar

Published Jan 1, 2011• 1 citation

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Abstract

Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is one of the interesting phenomena of light–matter interaction which modifies matter properties for propagation of light. In other words, we can change the absorption and refractive index (RI) in neighborhood of the resonant frequency using EIT. In this paper, we have doped 3‐level quantum dots in one of the Michelson Interferometer's mirror and used EIT to change its RI. So, a controllable phase difference between lights in two arms of interferometer is created. Long response time is the main drawback of Michelson interferometer based sensor, which is resolved by this technique.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3663078

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