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Electromagnetically induced transparency with a train of short pulses in Rb vapor

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We observe transmission of the radiation of a diode laser in the mode-locked regime through the cell containing optically dense Rb vapor under the condition where the hyperfine splitting of Rb is a multiple of the modulation frequency.

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  1. Department of Physics and Institute for Quantum Studies, Texas A & M University, College Station, USA

    V. A. Sautenkov, Yu. V. Rostovtsev, C. Y. Ye, M. O. Scully & O. A. Kocharovskaya

  2. Lebedev Institute of Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    V. A. Sautenkov

  3. Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

    M. O. Scully

  4. Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    O. A. Kocharovskaya

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This paper is dedicated to Yakov I. Khanin, our teacher, colleague, and friend. His ideas and insights will remain a source of inspiration for us and for many scientists working in the fields of research he initiated and pioneered.

Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 47, Nos. 10–11, pp. 872–883, October–November, 2004.

We thank George R. Welch for useful and stimulating discussions. This work was supported by the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Research Laboratory (Rome, NY), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-QuIST, Texas A & M University Telecommunication and Information Task Force (TITF) Initiative, and the Welch Foundation.

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Sautenkov, V.A., Rostovtsev, Y.V., Ye, C.Y. et al. Electromagnetically induced transparency with a train of short pulses in Rb vapor. Radiophys Quantum Electron 47, 806–810 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-005-0019-4

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