(1) Department of Physics, Zanjan University, P.O.Box 45195-313, Zanjan, Iran;(2) Department of Physics, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran;(3) Research Institute for Applied Physics and Astronomy, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
Abstract:
We investigate the dispersion and the absorption properties of a weak field in a three-level Λ and V-type atomic system. We use just an incoherent pumping field to control the group velocity of a light pulse. The slope of dispersion is shown to be changed from positive to negative just by varying the intensity of the indirect incoherent pumping field. Gain-assisted superluminal light propagation appears in this system. No laser field is used in the pumping processes.