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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Relationship between two-and three-photon coherence in a ladder-type atomic system

Yoon‐Seok Lee, Heung‐Ryoul Noh, Han Seb Moon

Published Jun 10, 2015• 0 citations
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Abstract

We investigated the relationship between two- and three-photon coherence in terms of the transition routes and coupling field intensities in a Doppler-broadened ladder-type atomic system for the 5S1/2–5P3/2–5D5/2 transition in 87Rb atoms. Three-photon electromagnetically induced absorption (TPEIA) due to three-photon coherence was observed in the only transition route that exhibited a dominant two-photon coherence effect. We showed that two-photon coherence is a necessary condition for three-photon coherence phenomena. A comparison of the relative magnitudes of the electromagnetically induced transparency and TPEIA as a function of the coupling field intensity revealed that the increase of three-photon coherence was faster than that of two-photon coherence. Considering three-photon coherence in a Doppler-broadened ladder-type three-level atomic system, the relation between two- and three-photon coherence was numerically calculated.

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