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Refractive Index Enhancement with Vanishing Absorption in an Atomic Vapor

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arxiv 0807.2584 v1 pith:5NQEEBW4 submitted 2008-07-16 quant-ph physics.optics

Refractive Index Enhancement with Vanishing Absorption in an Atomic Vapor

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keywords absorptionindexrefractivevaporatomicbeamcontrolenhanced
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We report a proof-of-principle experiment where the refractive index of an atomic vapor is enhanced while maintaining vanishing absorption of the beam. The key idea is to drive alkali atoms in a vapor with appropriate control lasers and induce a gain resonance and an absorption resonance for a probe beam in a two-photon Raman configuration. The strength and the position of these two resonances can be manipulated by changing the parameters of the control lasers. By using the interference between these two resonances, we obtain an enhanced refractive index without an increase in the absorption.

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