a Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Siena, Via Roma 56, I-53100 Siena, Italy b Dipartimento di Fisica, and European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Università di Firenze, Via G. Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Abstract:
We present a study of temporal compression resulting from the coherent control peculiarities of electromagnetically induced transparency propagation dynamics. We discuss the crucial conditions required to accomplish temporal compression in an experiment with a sample of hot atoms.