Journal of Contemporary Physics (Armenian Academy of Sciences)
Electromagnetically induced transparency in the medium of four-level atoms with upper level doublet
Narek Sisakyan
Abstract
Light absorption and slowing down when traveling in a medium of four-level atoms with a doublet of close-lying upper levels is studied in conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). It is shown that the presence of the second upper level leads to an increase in the absorption of the probe pulse. However, a control-pulse-detuning range exists between the doublet levels where light decelerates considerably more than in the case of ideal EIT.