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Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 1789 - 1792 (1994)

Piezophotonic Switching Due to Local Field Effects in a Coherently Prepared Medium of Three-Level Atoms
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Aaron S. Manka, Jonathan P. Dowling, and Charles M. Bowden
Weapons Sciences Directorate, AMSMI-RD-WS-ST, Research, Development, and Engineering Center, U.S. Army Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama 35898-5248

Michael Fleischhauer
Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, D-80333 Munich, Germany

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Received 24 January 1994

We study the effect of near dipole-dipole interactions on the electric susceptibility of a coherently prepared three-level Λ system. We discuss the influence of atomic nonlinearities on the recently predicted enhancement of the absorptionless index of refraction and inversionless gain due to local field effects [J.P. Dowling and C.M. Bowden, Phys. Rev. Lett. 70 1421 1993] and predict a density dependent, or piezophotonic, switching between absorption and amplification.


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URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v73/p1789
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.1789
PACS: 42.65.An, 42.50.Fx, 42.50.Hz, 42.60.Gd

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Erratum: Aaron S. Manka, Jonathan P. Dowling, Charles M. Bowden, and Michael Fleischhauer, Piezophotonic switching due to local field effects in a coherently prepared medium of three-level atoms, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 4965 (1995)

Comment: J. H. Eberly, Comment on “Piezophotonic Switching Due to Local Field Effects in a Coherently Prepared Medium of Three-Level Atoms”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3024 (1995)

Reply: A. S. Manka, J. P. Dowling, C. M. Bowden, and M. Fleischhauer, Manka et al. Reply:, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3025 (1995)

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