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Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is a technique for making an otherwise optically-thick medium transparent to laser radiation.’ The basic idea is to use two lasers or electromagnetic fields whose frequency difference is equal to a Raman (or two-photon) transition of the atom or molecule. We term these fields as the coupling field and the probe field. Figure 1 shows some of the possibilities. Transparency may be created in a (a) three-state system, or (b) in the continuum. Instead, (c) a medium which is already transparent, but is refractively thick (ßL » 1), may be made refractively thin (ßL « 1).
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Harris, S.E., Yin, G.Y., Kasapi, A., Jain, M., Luo, Z.F. (1996). Electromagnetically Induced Transparency. In: Eberly, J.H., Mandel, L., Wolf, E. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics VII. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9742-8_36
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