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The effects of spontaneously generated coherence (SGC) and phases of optical fields on the phenomenon of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) are investigated in a four-level inverted-Y system and in a five-level K-type system under various parametric conditions in order to demonstrate controllability of the EIT, dispersion properties, and group velocity in such systems. Non-zero second-order susceptibility in both systems is due to the SGC effect. The experimental viability of the model in semiconductor quantum well systems is also discussed.
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Osman, K., Hassan, S. & Joshi, A. Effect of spontaneously generated coherence on EIT and its refractive properties in four- and five-levels systems. Eur. Phys. J. D 54, 119–130 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2009-00173-x
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