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Local field induced phase modulation of a weak pulse using electromagnetically induced transparency in a dense medium

Robert Fleischhaker, Tarak Nath Dey, Jörg Evers

Published Feb 4, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

We analyze the influence of dipole-dipole interactions in an electromagnetically induced transparency setup at high density. We show both analytically and numerically that the polarization contribution to the local field strongly modulates the phase of a weak pulse. We give an intuitive explanation for this local field induced phase modulation and show that it distinctively differs from the nonlinear self-phase modulation a strong pulse experiences in a Kerr medium.

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