Abstract
When a three-level lambda system is illuminated by two lasers with a difference frequency corresponding to the splitting of the two lower levels, the atoms are optically pumped into a coherent superposition of the two lower levels–the coherent dark state–that cannot absorb the light fields anymore.
© 1998 Optical Society of America
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