title: Physical interpretation for the correlation spectra of electromagnetically-induced-transparency resonances.
abstract: The phenomenon called Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) may induce different types of correlation between two optical fields interacting with an ensemble of atoms. It is presently well known, for example, that in the vicinity of an EIT resonance the dominant correlations at low powers turn into anti-correlations as power increases. Such correlation spectra present striking power-broadening-independent features, with the best condition for measuring the characteristic linewidth occurring at the highest powers. In the present work we investigate the physical mechanisms responsible for this set of observations. Our approach is first to reproduce these effects in a better controlled experimental setup: a cold atomic ensemble, obtained from a magneto-optical trap. The results from this conceptually simpler system were then compared to a correspondingly simpler theory, which clearly relates the observed features to the interplay between two key aspects of EIT: the transparency itself and the steep normal dispersion near two-photon resonance.
authors: Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 50670-901 Recife, Brazil. dfelinto@df.ufpe.br
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Felinto
authors: L S
authors: LS
authors: Cruz
authors: R A
authors: RA
authors: de Oliveira
authors: H M
authors: HM
authors: Florez
authors: M H G
authors: MH
authors: de Miranda
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Nussenzveig
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Martinelli
authors: J W R
authors: JW
authors: Tabosa
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004574:Electromagnetic Fields; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D013057:Spectrum Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D013223:Statistics as Topic