Polarization dependence of Electromagnetic Induced Transparency in multilevel cascade system

Abstract

A theoretical model using density matrix approach has been presented to show the polarization dependence of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) in cascade multilevel atomic system. EIT has already been investigated both theoretically and experimentally by using three-level system in lambda (Λ), vee (V), and cascade (Ξ) configurations. However there is asymmetry in absorption measurement. To understand this asymmetry we introduce hyperfine levels in EIT cascade system. We present a five-level atomic system, which is a simple case of 87Rb. This study has been extended to investigate the polarization dependence of probe and control lasers on EIT. It has been observed that there is significant change in transparency window for different laser polarizations.