Phys. Rev. A 57, 4014–4018 (1998)Effects of spontaneously generated coherence on the pump-probe response of a Λ systemReceived 9 July 1997; revised 18 November 1997; published in the issue dated May 1998 Near-degenerate lower levels in a Λ system have an additional coherence term due to interaction with the vacuum of the radiation field. We report the effects of this spontaneously generated coherence on the formation of a trapped state in the presence of two coherent fields of arbitrary intensity. We show that such coherence preserves both electromagnetically induced transparency and coherent population trapping (CPT) phenomena. However, it changes the time scales associated with the formation of the CPT state, and brings about quantitative changes in the line profiles. We present a clear analytical explanation for our numerical results. We also report the dependence of line shapes on the relative phase between the two applied fields. © 1998 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.57.4014
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.57.4014
PACS:
42.50.Gy, 42.50.Ar, 42.50.Hz
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