title: Switching from "absorption within transparency" to "transparency within transparency" in an electromagnetically induced absorption dominated transition.
abstract: The absorption of a resonant coupling laser driving a closed degenerate two-level system in an atomic cesium beam was investigated as a function of the detuning of a second laser probing the same transition. The measurements were performed for four different polarization combinations of the two laser beams. Except for the beams of counterrotating polarizations all coupling-laser absorption profiles showed "absorption within transparency," i.e., the absorption in the region around the two-photon resonance was smaller than the absorption corresponding to the one-photon transition induced by the coupling laser, and an extra absorption peak was observed on this curve at the two-photon resonance. With regard to the beams of counterrotating polarizations we observed a switch from absorption within transparency to "transparency within transparency" when the probe-laser power exceeded the constant coupling-laser power. In other words, the cesium ensemble became mostly transparent to the coupling-laser beam at the two-photon resonance.
authors.affiliation: Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik and Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Callinstrasse 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany. Katrin.Dahl@aei.mpg.de
authors.forename: Katrin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dahl
authors.forename: Luca Spani
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Molella
authors.forename: Rolf-Hermann
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Rinkleff
authors.forename: Karsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Danzmann