Abstract
We observed the transient oscillation in the spectra of electromagnetically induced transparency by rapidly sweeping the probe laser frequency. The spectra were measured with laser-cooled atoms. We show that the amplitude of the transient oscillation decays exponentially at a rate of where is the Rabi frequency of the coupling laser and Γ is the spontaneous decay rate of the excited state. Using the transient oscillation, we demonstrate a simple method to determine This method is particularly useful with the low-intensity coupling laser.
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