Electromagnetically induced transparency: Optics in coherent media

M Fleischhauer, A Imamoglu, JP Marangos - Reviews of modern physics, 2005 - APS
Coherent preparation by laser light of quantum states of atoms and molecules can lead to
quantum interference in the amplitudes of optical transitions. In this way the optical …

Coherent population transfer among quantum states of atoms and molecules

K Bergmann, H Theuer, BW Shore - Reviews of Modern Physics, 1998 - APS
The authors discuss the technique of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP), a
method of using partially overlap** pulses (from pump and Stokes lasers) to produce …

Electromagnetically induced transparency

SE Harris - Physics today, 1997 - pubs.aip.org
E lectromagnetically induced transparency is a technique for eliminating the effect of a
medium on a propagating beam of electromagnetic radiation. EIT may also be used, but …

V coherent population trap** in laser spectroscopy

E Arimondo - Progress in optics, 1996 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter describes the coherent population trap** in laser
spectroscopy. Coherent population trap** may be also described as the pum** of the …

Electromagnetically induced transparency

JP Marangos - Journal of modern optics, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
The subject of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is reviewed in this paper.
Emphasis is placed on the experimental work reported in this field since 1990. Theoretical …

Extracting work from a single heat bath via vanishing quantum coherence

MO Scully, MS Zubairy, GS Agarwal, H Walther - Science, 2003 - science.org
We present here a quantum Carnot engine in which the atoms in the heat bath are given a
small bit of quantum coherence. The induced quantum coherence becomes vanishingly …

Nonequilibrium condensates and lasers without inversion: Exciton-polariton lasers

A Imamog, RJ Ram, S Pau, Y Yamamoto - Physical Review A, 1996 - APS
We analyze elementary properties of exciton and polariton lasers—devices that generate
coherent optical and matter waves using final-state stimulation of exciton-phonon scattering …

Enhancement of the index of refraction via quantum coherence

MO Scully - Physical Review Letters, 1991 - APS
Enhancement of the index of refraction via quantum coherence Page 1 VOLUME 67, NUMBER
14 PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 30 SEPTEMBER 1991 Enhancement of the Index of …

Electromagnetically induced transparency in ladder-type inhomogeneously broadened media: Theory and experiment

J Gea-Banacloche, Y Li, S **, M **ao - Physical Review A, 1995 - APS
We develop a theory of electromagnetically induced transparency in a three-level, ladder-
type Doppler-broadened medium, paying special attention to the case where the coupling …

Direct measurement of exciton valley coherence in monolayer WSe2

K Hao, G Moody, F Wu, CK Dass, L Xu, CH Chen… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
In crystals, energy band extrema in momentum space can be identified by a valley index.
The internal quantum degree of freedom associated with valley pseudospin indices can act …