Propagation of two dimensional pulses in electromagnetically induced tranparency media in the case of perpendicular storing and retrieving pulses has been analyzed. It has been shown that propagation control of the pulses in optically thick media can be used for producing interchange between pulse time-shape and intensity profile distribution. A simple obvious analytical solution for the retrieved new field has been obtained. Electromagnetically induced transparancy (EIT) is a coherent interaction process where a coupling laser field is used to modify the optical properties of an atomic medium for probe laser field [1]. The common EIT system is a medium of three level Λ atoms interacting with two resonant laser fields tuned to two photon resonance. Since the discovery of EIT great attention has been payed to that, which has been caused by many unique applications and effects treated by this effect, such as ultraslow light propagation [2], light storage [3], coherent control of temporal pulse shaping [4] etc. By using EIT also, the traditional effects of nonlinear optics may be enhanced [5]. The theoretical study presented in this paper discusses and explains how to exploit the pecularities of EIT propagation dynamics for both the determination of temporal shape of probe pulse and the determination of probe pulse profile intensity distribution. Storaging and retrieving pulses are assumed to propagate in perpendicular derections. The possibility of changing the direction of the pulse by a swtich of control beam direction was already shown in [7]. It will be shown below that the retrieved pulse time-shape and profile intensity distribution contains information about the initial probe pulse profile and time-shape respectively. Similar results has been obtained in atomic beams [6]. A medium of three level Λ atoms with two metastable lower states is considered (Fig.1). State |2 connects to state |3 by coupling fields E c1 = A c1 cos (k c1 x − ω c1 t + ϕ c1), 1

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