title: Chaos in an electromagnetically induced transparent medium inside an optical cavity.
abstract: We theoretically predict and experimentally demonstrate chaotic behaviors in a system comprising of three-level atoms inside an optical ring cavity. This electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) system is driven to chaos through period-doubling route by reducing the frequency detuning of the coupling laser beam. The chaos occurs in a different parametric regime as previously predicted and is believed to be caused by the enhanced dispersion and nonlinearity due to induced atomic coherence in such EIT system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA.
authors.forename: Wenge
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Amitabh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Joshi
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Xiao