Light speed reduction to 17 metres per second in an ultracold atomic gas

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6720, 1999, Pages 594-598

  Vestergaard Hau, Lene ^a,b   Harris, S E ^c   Dutton, Zachary ^a,b   Behroozi, Cyrus H ^a,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM;

ARTICLE; CAMERA; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; GAS; LASER; LIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0000755084     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/17561     Document Type: Article

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