PIEZOPHOTONIC SWITCHING DUE TO LOCAL-FIELD EFFECTS IN A COHERENTLY PREPARED MEDIUM OF 3-LEVEL ATOMS

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作者
MANKA, AS [1 ]
DOWLING, JP [1 ]
BOWDEN, CM [1 ]
FLEISCHHAUER, M [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV MUNICH,DEPT PHYS,D-80333 MUNICH,GERMANY
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.1789
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We study the effect of near dipole-dipole interactions on the electric susceptibility of a coherently prepared three-level Lambda system. We discuss the influence of atomic nonlinearities on the recently predicted enhancement of the absorptionless index of refraction and inversionless gain due to local field effects [J.P. Dowling and C. M. Bowden, Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 1421 (1993)] and predict a density dependent, or piezophotonic, switching between absorption and amplification.
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页码:1789 / 1792
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