Vacuum induced transparency and slow light phenomena in a two-level atomic ensemble controlled by a cavity

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We study the optical properties of a two-level atomic ensemble controlled by a high-finesse cavity. Even though the cavity is initially in the vacuum state in the absence of external driving, the probe response of the atomic ensemble can be dramatically modified. When the collectively enhanced atom-cavity coupling is strong enough and the cavity decay rate is much smaller than the atomic damping rate, an electromagnetically induced transparency-like coherent phenomenon emerges with a dip absorption for the response of the two-level atoms in the cavity without driving, and thus is called vacuum induced transparency. We also show the slow light with very low group velocity in such an atomic ensemble.

Key words： electromagnetically induced transparency two-level atomic ensemble vacuum slow light

Received: 26 December 2014

PACS:	42.50.Gy	(Effects of atomic coherence on propagation, absorption, and Amplification of light; electromagnetically induced transparency and Absorption)
	42.25.Bs	(Wave propagation, transmission and absorption)
	42.50.Pq	(Cavity quantum electrodynamics; micromasers)

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11304010).

Corresponding Authors: Guo Yu-Jie

E-mail: guoyujie@csrc.ac.cn

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Guo Yu-Jie,Nie Wen-Jie. Vacuum induced transparency and slow light phenomena in a two-level atomic ensemble controlled by a cavity[J]. Chin. Phys. B, 2015, 24(9):094205.

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