Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
- 1 July 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics Today
- Vol. 50 (7), 36-42
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881806
Abstract
Electromagnetically 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 under more limited conditions, to eliminate optical self‐focusing and defocusing and to improve the transmission of laser beams through inhomogeneous refracting gases and metal vapors, as figure 1 illustrates. The technique may be used to create large populations of coherently driven uniformly phased atoms, thereby making possible new types of optoelectronic devices.Keywords
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