Copropagating superluminal and slow light manifested by electromagnetically assisted nonlinear optical processes

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作者
Zhang, Jiepeng [1 ]
Hernandez, Gessler [1 ]
Zhu, Yifu [1 ]
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[1] Florida Int Univ, Dept Phys, Miami, FL 33199 USA
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10.1364/OL.31.002598
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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We report an experimental observation of nonlinear optical gain and loss assisted by electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and simultaneous superluminal and subluminal light propagations. Two circular components of a linearly polarized light initiate third-order nonlinear processes in which one circular component is attenuated while the other component is amplified in a three-level EIT system. Near the atomic resonance, the attenuated circular component experiences steep normal dispersion and propagates with a slow group velocity, while the amplified circular component experiences steep anomalous dispersion and propagates with a superluminal group velocity. (c) 2006 Optical Society of America.
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页码:2598 / 2600
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