Numerical experiments with optical pulses in V-type media

Optics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 133-138

  Rahman, Ashiqur ^a   Eberly, J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RESONANCE; SOLITONS; THEOREM PROVING; VECTORS;

OPTICAL PULSES; PULSE PROPAGATION AND SOLITONS; RABI FREQUENCIES; SCATTERING, STIMULATED;

OPTICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0004243134     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.4.000133     Document Type: Article

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