Effects of spontaneously generated coherence on the pump-probe response of a [Formula Presented] system

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 4014-4018

  Menon, Sunish ^a   Agarwal, G S ^a,b  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

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EID: 0000960119     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.57.4014     Document Type: Article

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