Observation of an electromagnetically induced grating in cold sodium atoms

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 4773-4776

  Mitsunaga, Masaharu ^a   Imoto, Nobuyuki ^a  

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

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EID: 0001430564     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.59.4773     Document Type: Article

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