Elimination of the band gap of a resonant optical material by electromagnetically induced transparency

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1999, Pages R2681-R2684

  Agarwal, G S ^a   Boyd, Robert W ^b  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

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EID: 0001600960     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.60.R2681     Document Type: Article

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