Effective two-level Maxwell-Bloch formalism and coherent pulse propagation in a driven three-level medium

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 3986-3997

  Kozlov, Victor V ^a,b   Kocharovskaya, Olga ^a   Scully, Marlan O ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

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EID: 0009440939     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.59.3986     Document Type: Article

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