Controlling optical bistability using electromagnetic-field-induced transparency and quantum interferences

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1812-1817

  Harshawardhan, W ^a   Agarwal, G S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LASER RESONATORS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL VARIABLES CONTROL; POLYNOMIALS; QUANTUM OPTICS; TRANSPARENCY;

AUTLER-TOWNES SPLITTING; DETUNING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; HAMILTONIAN; MEAN FIELD APPROXIMATION; MULTISTABILITY; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE;

OPTICAL BISTABILITY;

EID: 0030107122     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.53.1812     Document Type: Article

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