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Physical Review Letters

Refractive Index Enhancement in a Far-Off Resonant Atomic System

Deniz D. Yavuz

Published Nov 22, 2005• 59 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate a scheme where a laser beam which is very far detuned from an atomic resonance experiences a large index of refraction with vanishing absorption. The essential idea is to excite two Raman resonances with appropriately chosen strong control lasers.
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.95.223601

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