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Slow Light in Doppler Broadened Two level Systems

G. S. Agarwal, Tarak Nath Dey

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0310012

Abstract

We show that the propagation of light in a Doppler broadened medium can be slowed down considerably eventhough such medium exhibits very flat dispersion. The slowing down is achieved by the application of a saturating counter propagating beam that produces a hole in the inhomogeneous line shape. In atomic vapors, we calculate group indices of the order of 103. The calculations include all coherence effects.

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