Abstract
Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is the fact that a strong field (called control) resonant with an atomic transition, can make the atomic medium transparent for another field (called signal) resonant with a transition sharing the same excited state. Introduced theoretically and first observed by Harris and co-workers [1], it has since then given rise to important applications. Significantly, EIT led to the demonstration of slow-light and opened the way to the development of a reversible quantum memory for light [2], which is a major challenge for quantum information networking.
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