Transmission of dressed fields in three-level media
- 1 June 1995
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Quantum and Semiclassical Optics: Journal of the European Optical Society Part B
- Vol. 7 (3), 373-384
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1355-5111/7/3/013
Abstract
The interaction of two incident laser pulses with a dielectric medium composed of three-level atoms is discussed. Particular attention is paid to various effects connected with the well known dark state or trapping state of lambda systems. Strong- and weak-field adiabatic processes are considered, taking note of the two-photon adiabatic criterion and counter-intuitive pulse sequencing. Results include two-photon absorption formulae two-photon soliton solutions, and graphs showing the propagation of the recently discovered two-photon trapping states of the field.Keywords
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