Electromagnetically induced transparency and coherent-state preparation in optically thick media

Optics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 107-112

  Fleischhauer, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTROMAGNETISM; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTONS; RESONANCE; TRANSPARENCY;

COHERENT RADIATION; DARK STATES; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY (EIT); RAMAN OPTICAL PUMPING;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0000346403     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.4.000107     Document Type: Article

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