Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Controlling the Time Shape of Laser Pulses

摘要

The development of new methods for controlling optical properties of a medium and the time shape of laser pulses is an important physical problem of fundamental and applied significance. The solution of this problem is urgently required in the areas of spectroscopy of fast processes, quantum control of atoms and molecules, optoelectronics and optical communication, etc. From this standpoint, the phenomenon of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) presents extremely interesting and rather unique opportunities [1-3]. Although the majority of studies on EIT have been carried out for atomic media (see reviews [3-6] and references therein), the relevant ideas have also undergone further development in the context of solid-state systems [7].