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In Chap. 7 we showed that in the weak probe limit, where we assume all of the population remains in the ground state, the group index of a dense Rb atomic vapour can be very large. In this chapter instead of only weakly probing the ground-state medium, we drive significant population into the excited state with a second pump laser, and explore the time-response of the system to this strong perturbation.

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Keaveney, J. (2014). Coherent Dynamics. In: Collective Atom–Light Interactions in Dense Atomic Vapours. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07100-8_9

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