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Simulation of electromagnetically and magnetically induced transparency in a magnetized plasma

Phys. Plasmas 10, 3004 (2003); doi:10.1063/1.1580816

Issue Date: July 2003

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M. S. Hur
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720

J. S. Wurtele
University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720

G. Shvets
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 60616
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510
Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), a phenomenon well known in atomic systems, has a natural analogy in a classical magnetized plasma. The magnetized plasma has a resonance for right-hand polarized electromagnetic waves at the electron cyclotron frequency Omega0, so that a probe wave with frequency omega1 = Omega0 cannot propagate through the plasma. The plasma can be made transparent to such a probe by the presence of a pump wave. The pump may be an electromagnetic wave or magnetostatic wiggler. Simulations and theory show that the physical reason for the transparency is that the beating of the probe wave with the pump wave sets up a plasma oscillation, and the upper sideband of the pump wave cancels the resonant plasma current due to the probe. The theory of plasma EIT derived here extends that found in the earlier work to include the effects of the lower sideband of the pump and renormalization of the plasma frequency and an analysis of the transient response. A detailed comparison of theory to one-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations is presented and estimates for the performance ion accelerator using the EIT interaction are given. The dispersion relation and estimates for the phase velocity and amplitude of the plasma wave are in good agreement with particle-in-cell simulations. ©2003 American Institute of Physics.
History: Received 30 December 2002; accepted 14 April 2003
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KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords
PACS
  • 52.65.-y
    Plasma simulation
  • 42.50.Gy
    Effects of atomic coherence on propagation, absorption, and amplification of light; electromagnetically induced transparency and absorption
  • 52.40.Db
    Electromagnetic (nonlaser) radiation interactions with plasma
  • 42.50.Md
    Optical transient phenomena including quantum beats, photon echo, free-induction decay, dephasings and revivals, optical nutation, and self-induced transparency
  • YEAR: 2003

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