Dark-state polariton in magnetized plasma under electromagnetically induced transparency

作者：Kawamori Eiichirou^*

来源：Physics of Plasmas, 2010, 17(10): 102108.

DOI：10.1063/1.3503613

This paper derives a wave equation in magnetized plasma under electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) regime for probe electron cyclotron wave. The equation has a solution indicating a state analogous to "dark-state polaritons" [M. Fleischhauer and M. D. Lukin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5094 (2000)] in quantum atomic system. The state analogous to dark-state polaritons is a propagating coupled state of the probe-wave electric field and longitudinal plasma oscillation. The propagation of the coupled state can be stopped as its waveform is maintained if injection of pump wave is properly controlled in time domain. The "stop-light" is achieved by adiabatic transition from a state in which the probe-wave field is dominant to a state in which the longitudinal plasma oscillation is dominant. This study also recaptures a phenomenon analogous to "coherent population trap" in conventional EIT of quantum atomic system.

• 出版日期2010-10