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EIT and diffusion of atomic coherence

I. Novikova, Y. Xiao, D. F. Phillips, R. L. Walsworth

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0505186

Abstract

We study experimentally the effect of diffusion of Rb atoms on Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) in a buffer gas vapor cell. In particular, we find that diffusion of atomic coherence in-and-out of the laser beam plays a crucial role in determining the EIT resonance lineshape and the stored light lifetime.

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