Quantized light lenses for atoms: The perfect thick lens

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 5076-5084

  Rohwedder, B ^a   Orszag, M ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

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EID: 0000990469     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.54.5076     Document Type: Article

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