  We investigate potential schemes to reinvigorate coherences between excited
states in a $V$ level system under various excitation conditions. Coherent
pulsed, cw and noisy pulsed excitation are considered and the existence of a
trap state is shown to allow for the resurgence of excited state coherence in
the two pulsed scenarios. With a short trap time (strong decoherence), it is
possible to restart excited state coherence in the pulsed scenarios. In the
case of cw excitation with relaxation back to the ground state, the coherences
between the excited states do not vanish in the long time limit but instead
approach a non-zero value.
