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On electromagnetically induced transparency in the degenerate $\Lambda$-scheme

V. S. Zapasskii

Physics Department, Saint-Petersburg State University

Abstract: How the classical phenomenon of linear optics, the interference of polarized beams, can imitate the effect of electromagnetically induced transparency is demonstrated using the light stopping experiment as an example.

PACS: 42.25.Hz, 42.50.Gy, 42.65.-k

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0179.200902e.0197

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 2009, 52:2, 179–181

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