Local-field effects in a dense collection of two-level atoms embedded in a dielectric medium: Intrinsic optical bistability enhancement and local cooperative effects

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 1139-1142

  Crenshaw, Michael E ^a   Bowden, Charles M ^a  

^a U S ARMY SPACE AND MISSILE DEFENSE COMMAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DENSITY (OPTICAL); DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HYSTERESIS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; QUANTUM OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ATOMIC RESONANCE FREQUENCY; BLOCH EQUATIONS; COOPERATIVE DECAY TERMS; LOCAL FIELD ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; NEAR DIPOLE-DIPOLE INTERACTION; QUANTUM COHERENCE;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0030085282     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.53.1139     Document Type: Article

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