  The propagation of the arbitrarily polarized pulse of the weak probe field
through the resonant medium of Lambda-type three-level atoms with degenerate
levels adiabatically driven by the coherent coupling field is considered. It is
shown that such pulse is decomposed in the medium into two orthogonally
polarized dark-state polaritons propagating with different group velocities.
The expressions for the polarizations and group velocities of these two
polaritons are obtained. The dependence of these polarizations and group
velocities on the values of the angular momenta of resonant levels, on the
polarization of the coupling field and on the initial atomic state is studied.
