High-order ghost imaging with thermal light consisting of N different frequencies is investigated. The high-order intensity correlation and intrinsic correlation functions are derived for such N-colour light. It is found that they are similar in form to those for the monochromatic case, thus most of the conclusions we obtained previously for monochromatic Nth-order ghost imaging are still applicable. However, we find that the visibility of the N-colour ghost image depends strongly on the wavelength used to illuminate the object, and increases as this wavelength increases when the test arm is fixed. On the contrary, changes of wavelength in the reference arms do not lead to any change of the visibility.
We study the electromagnetically-induced transparency(EIT)in a Doppler-broadened cascaded three-level system.We decompose the susceptibility responsible for the EIT resonance into a linear and a nonlinear part,and the EIT resonance reflects mainly the characteristics of the nonlinear susceptibility.It is found that the macroscopic polarization interference effect plays a crucial role in determining the EIT resonance spectrum.To obtain a Doppler-free spectrum there must be polarization interference between atoms of different velocities.A dressed-state model,which analyzes the velocities at which the atoms are in resonance with the dressed states through Doppler frequency shifting,is employed to explain the results.
