Temperature diagnostics for cold sodium atoms by transient four-wave mixing

Optics Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 840-842

  Mitsunaga, Masaharu ^a   Yamashita, Makoto ^a   Koashi, Masato ^a   Imoto, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

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EID: 0001209997     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.23.000840     Document Type: Article

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