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Nonlinear-optical processes using electromagnetically induced transparency

Stephen E. Harris, J. E. Field, Ataç İmamoğlu

Published May 12, 1991• 88 citations
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Abstract

It is well known by those practicing the techniques of nonlinear optics that the power that may be generated in a frequency summing process and the gain that may be obtained in a parametric process are determined by the interaction of tire nonlinear and linear susceptibilities. In general as an atomic transition to the ground state is approached, the nonlinear susceptibility is resonantly enhanced, but at the same time the media exhibits a rapidly increasing refractive index and becomes opaque.

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It is well known by those practicing the techniques of nonlinear optics that the power that may be generated in a frequency summing process and the gain that may be obtained in a parametric process are determined by the interaction of tire nonlinear and linear susceptibilities. In general as an atomic transition to the ground state is approached, the nonlinear susceptibility is resonantly enhanced, but at the same time the media exhibits a rapidly increasing refractive index and becomes opaque.
It is now well understood that the characteristics of a nonlinear optical process are the result of the interplay of the linear and nonlinear susceptibilities. In general, as an atomic transition to the ground state is approached, the nonlinear susceptibility is resonantly enhanced, but, at the same time, the media exhibits a rapidly increasing refractive index and becomes opaque. During the last several years we have shown how electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) may be used to dramatically solve this problem.
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