Observation of dressed intra-cavity dark states
arXiv:1110.4831 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.85.013814
Abstract
Cavity electromagnetically induced transparency in a coherently prepared cavity-atom system is manifested as a narrow transmission peak of a weak probe laser coupled into the cavity mode. We show that with a resonant pump laser coupling the cavity-confined four-level atoms from free space, the narrow transmission peak of the cavity EIT is split into two peaks. The two peaks represent the dressed intra-cavity dark states and have a frequency separation approximately equal to the Rabi frequency of the free-space pump laser. We observed experimentally the dressed intra-cavity dark states in cold Rb atoms confined in a cavity and the experimental results agree with theoretical calculations based on a semiclassical analysis.
10 pages, 6 figures
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