PIEZOPHOTONIC SWITCHING DUE TO LOCAL-FIELD EFFECTS IN A COHERENTLY PREPARED MEDIUM OF 3-LEVEL ATOMS

Authors
MANKA AS DOWLING JP BOWDEN CM FLEISCHHAUER M
Citation
As. Manka et al., PIEZOPHOTONIC SWITCHING DUE TO LOCAL-FIELD EFFECTS IN A COHERENTLY PREPARED MEDIUM OF 3-LEVEL ATOMS, Physical review letters, 73(13), 1994, pp. 1789-1792
Citations number
26
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
73
Issue
13
Year of publication
1994
Pages
1789 - 1792
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1994)73:13<1789:PSDTLE>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
We study the effect of near dipole-dipole interactions on the electric susceptibility of a coherently prepared three-level Lambda system. We discuss the influence of atomic nonlinearities on the recently predic ted enhancement of the absorptionless index of refraction and inversio nless gain due to local field effects [J.P. Dowling and C. M. Bowden, Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 1421 (1993)] and predict a density dependent, or piezophotonic, switching between absorption and amplification.