Electromagnetically induced absorption and electromagnetically induced transparency for optical transitions F g → F e in the field of elliptically polarized waves

Nonlinear laser spectroscopy is considered in the scheme of two collinear waves with arbitrary elliptical polarizations. Emphasis is placed on investigating the nonlinear corrections in the absorption spectrum of one of the waves. The spontaneous transfer of low-frequency Zeeman coherence is shown to affect the sign of the subnatural-width resonance. For a closed transition, the direction of the resonance profile has been found to depend only on the angular momenta F (e) and F (g) . On this basis, a classification has been developed for various transitions by the direction of the subnatural-width resonance profile.