Pulse pair propagation under conditions of induced transparency: adiabatic approximation
Vasily G. Arkhipkin, Ivan V. Timofeev
The features of spatial and temporal evolution of two short laser pulses propagating in three-level medium under conditions of coherent population trapping and adiabatic population transfer is investigated in adiabatic approximation. It is shown that in both cases pulses can penetrate into a medium at a distance considerably exceeding the length of linear absorption of a single weak probe pulse in absence of a coupling pulse at adjacent transition. The difference of spatial and temporal evolution of level populations in processes of coherent population trapping and adiabatic population transfer is demonstrated. Also we show that the concept of dressed-field pulses is consequence of Manley-Raw relation.
Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE•Mar 9, 2001•0 citations