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The response of a three-level atomic system driven by a resonant coherent field acting on a transition near the photonic band-edge of a photonic band-gap material as well as the general case of a frequency-dependent reservoir is studied. The strong frequency dependence of the radiation mode spectral density on the scale of the driving field Rabi frequency is shown to lead to essential and controllable changes in the refractive index, as well as to effects of electromagnetically induced transparency and lasing without inversion. Such an effective dynamic control of the atomic response enables for applications in nonlinear optics and optical computing and communications.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 47, Nos. 10–11, pp. 884–895, October–November, 2004.
This research was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project No.03-02-17176) and the Council on the Grants of the President of the Russian Federation for Support of Leading Scientific Schools (grant 1622.2003.2). R. V. acknowledges support from the Spanish government (project BFM2002-04369-C04-03) and from the Generalitat de Catalunya (project 2001SGR00223). O. K. acknowledges support by the Office of Naval Research, the National Science Foundation, and the Texas Advanced Research Program.
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Radeonychev, Y.V., Erukhimova, M.A., Kocharovskaya, O.A. et al. Electromagnetically induced transparency and lasing without inversion in three-level atoms imbedded in a frequency-dependent environment. Radiophys Quantum Electron 47, 795–805 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-005-0018-5
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