Electromagnetically induced transparency of an interacting cold Rydberg ensemble

Weatherill, KJ; Pritchard, JD; Abel, RP; Bason, MG; Mohapatra, AK; Adams, CS

Abstract

We study electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) of a weakly interacting cold Rydberg gas. We show that for Rydberg states with principal quantum numbers in the range n = 19–26, the onset of interactions is manifest as a depopulation of the Rydberg state. In the limit of a weak probe where the depopulation effect is negligible, we observe no evidence of interaction-induced decoherence and obtain a narrow Rydberg dark resonance with a linewidth of <600 kHz.

Citation

Weatherill, K., Pritchard, J., Abel, R., Bason, M., Mohapatra, A., & Adams, C. (2008). Electromagnetically induced transparency of an interacting cold Rydberg ensemble. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 41(20), Article 201002. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/41/20/201002

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2008
• Deposit Date: Sep 24, 2010
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 6, 2010
• Journal: Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
• Print ISSN: 0953-4075
• Electronic ISSN: 1361-6455
• Publisher: IOP Publishing
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 20
• Article Number: 201002
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/41/20/201002
• Publisher URL: http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-4075/41/20/201002