Role of strongly modulated coherence in transient evolution dynamics of probe absorption in a three-level atomic system

Abstract

We investigate the dynamical behaviour of atomic response in a closed three-level V-type atomic system with the variation of different relevant parameters to exhibit transient evolution of absorption, gain and transparency in the probe response. The oscillations in probe absorption and gain can be efficiently modulated by changing the values of the Rabi frequency, detuning and the collective phase involved in the system. The interesting outcome of the work is the generation of coherence controlled loop-structure with varying amplitudes in the oscillatory probe response of the probe field at various parameter conditions. The prominence of these structures is observed when the coherence induced in a one-photon excitation path is strongly modified by two-step excitations driven by the coherent fields operating in closed interaction contour. In contrast to purely resonant case, the time interval between two successive loops gets significantly reduced with the application of non-zero detuning in the coherent fields.