Phys. Rev. A 74, 013807 (2006) [4 pages]

Spectral narrowing via quantum coherence

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Eugeniy E. Mikhailov¹, Vladimir A. Sautenkov^1,2, Yuri V. Rostovtsev¹, Aihua Zhang¹, M. Suhail Zubairy^1,3, Marlan O. Scully^1,4, and George R. Welch¹
¹Department of Physics and Institute of Quantum Studies, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242, USA
²P. N. Lebedev Institute of Physics, 119991 Moscow, Russia
³Department of Electronics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
⁴Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA

Received 29 November 2005; published 20 July 2006

We have studied the transmission through an optically thick ⁸⁷Rb vapor that is illuminated by monochromatic and noise-broadened laser fields in Λ configuration. The spectral width of the beat signal between the two fields after transmission through the atomic medium is more than 1000 times narrower than the spectral width of this signal before the medium.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.74.013807

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10.1103/PhysRevA.74.013807

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42.50.Gy, 42.50.Ar, 03.67.Hk

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Phys. Rev. A 74, 013807 (2006) [4 pages]

Spectral narrowing via quantum coherence