Resonance fluorescence quenching and spectral line narrowing via quantum interference in a four-level atom driven by two coherent fields

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 2330-2341

  Li, Fu Li ^a,b   Zhu, Shi Yao ^a,c  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT FIELDS; FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; SPECTRAL LINES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FLUORESCENCE; PARTICLE OPTICS; QUENCHING; RESONANCE; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

QUANTUM INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA;

EID: 0000428113     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.59.2330     Document Type: Article

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