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We investigate the spontaneously generated coherence (SGC) in a Doppler broadened four-level atomic system driven by two coherent fields. We plot the spontaneous emission spectra with different parameters and discuss how the initial atomic conditions and parameters of both fields change the number of peaks and dark lines of spontaneous emission spectra. Furthermore, we also show how the spontaneous emission spectrum is modified by Doppler effects in the viewed direction. Our results have important references to the experimental observation of SGC in hot atomic vapors.
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Li, AJ., Wang, CL., Wang, L. et al. Spontaneously generated coherence in a Doppler broadened atomic system. Eur. Phys. J. D 42, 373–379 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2007-00048-2
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