Abstract
Exploiting the giant Kerr nonlinearity associated with electromagnetically induced transparency, an atomic phase grating created with arbitrarily weak fields is proposed. Almost 30% of a probe beam can be diffracted into the first diffraction order.
© 2010 Optical Society of America
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