Mirrorless optical bistability of linear molecular aggregates

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 416-423

  Malyshev, Victor ^a   Moreno, Pablo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EXCITONS; FREQUENCIES; KINETIC THEORY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; SWITCHING;

DENSITY MATRIX; DIPOLE-DIPOLE INTERACTIONS; FRENKEL EXCITONS; MOLECULAR AGGREGATES; POPULATION DIFFERENCE; RABI FREQUENCY; RADIATIVE RELAXATION;

MOLECULES;

EID: 0029734259     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.53.416     Document Type: Article

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