Practical Course F65

Is it possible to stop the effect that a medium has on a propagating beam of electromagnetic radiation? Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is a technique that makes this possible for certain optical frequencies and leads to a finite window of transparency in the transmission signal. Thus, with EIT you can make a medium transparent using quantum interference and this is what we are going to observe in this practical course.

Lab

Room 02.207, Kirchhoff-Institut (INF 227)

Material

• Experimental manual containing the description of the practical course.
• Miniscience report describing the theory and the experimental setup.

Further Information

• Diploma Thesis of Dennis Heine: Trapping Light with Dark States
• Diploma Thesis of Mathias Weickert: Lebensdauerbestimmung von Dunkelzuständen

Contact

• Philippe Bräunig, philippe.braeunig@kip.uni-heidelberg.de
  office: 02.302, phone: (54)5185
• Wolfgang Müssel, wolfgang.muessel@kip.uni-heidelberg.de
  office: 02.315, phone: (54)5186