We report on the spatial information of a coupling laser transfer into a reflected probe laser; the transfer is achieved by means of electromagnetically induced transparency through a common excited state connected with <TEX>$5S_{1/2}-5P_{1/2}(F=1{\rightarrow}F'=2)$</TEX> in the <TEX>$^{87}Rb\;D_1$</TEX> line. When the coupling laser was spatially modulated as a stationary wave, the absorption of the probe laser was enhanced and the reflection of the probe laser was generated. When the coupling laser was spatially modulated by a mask, we observed that the reflection light of the probe laser was modulated as the shape of the mask. The Bragg reflection transferred the spatial information of the coupling laser. The reflection was approximately 7% of the incident power of the probe laser.

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Europhys. Lett.

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J. Korean Phys. Soc.

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Nature

• M. Bajcsy, A. S. Zibrov, and M. D. Lukin, "Stationary pulses of light in an atomic medium," Nature, vol. 426, pp. 638-641, 2003 [CrossRef]

Opt. Lett.

• P. R. Hemmer, D. P. Katz, J. Donoghue, M. Cronin-Galomb, M. S. Shahriar, and P. Kumar, "Efficient lowintensity optical phase conjugation based on coherent population trapping in sodium," Opt. Lett., vol. 20, no. 9, pp. 982-984, 1995

Optics Letters

• A. W. Brown and M. Xiao, "All-optical switching and routing based on an electromagnetically induced absorption grating," Opt. Lett., vol. 30, no. 7, pp. 699-701, 2005 [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. A

• H. Y. Ling, Y. Q. Li, and M. Xiao, "Electromagnetically induced grating: Homogeneously broadened medium," Phys. Rev. A, vol. 57, no, 2, pp. 1338-1344, 1998 [CrossRef]
• M. Mitsunaga and N. Imoto, "Observation of an electromagnetically induced grating in cold sodium atoms," Phys. Rev. A, vol. 59, no. 6, pp. 4773-4776, 1999 [CrossRef]
• S. E. Harris, J. E. Field, and A. Kasapi, "Dispersive properties of electromagnetically induced transparency," Phys. Rev. A, vol. 46, no. 1, R29-R32, 1992 [CrossRef]
• X. M. Su and B. S. Ham, "Dynamic control of the photonic band gap using quantum coherence," Phys. Rev. A, vol. 71, pp. 013821, 2005 [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. Lett.

• K. J. Boller, A. Imamoglu and S. E. Harris, "Observation of electromagnetically induced transparency," Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 66, no. 20, pp. 2593-2596, 1991 [CrossRef]
• M. Xiao, Y. Li, S. Jin, and J. Gea-Banacloche, "Measurement of dispersive properties of electromagnetically induced transparency in rubidium atoms," Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 74, no. 5, pp. 666-669, 1995 [CrossRef]
• D. F. Phillips, A. Fleischauer, A. Mair, R. L. Walsworth, and M. D. Lukin,"Storage of light in atomic vapor," Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 86, no. 5, pp. 738-786, 2001 [CrossRef]
• K. J. Boller, A. Imamoglu, and S. E. Harris, "Observation of electromagnetically induced transparency," Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 66, no. 20, pp. 2593-2596, 1991 [CrossRef]

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