The interference of radiation from two trapped atoms: Thermal noise and visibility

Optics Communications

Volumn 127, Issue 4-6, 1996, Pages 243-250

  Huang, Hu ^a,b,e   Agarwal, G S ^c   Scully, M O ^a,b,d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARC   (United States)

^c PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^e TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INELASTIC PHOTON SCATTERING; TRAPPED ATOMS;

ATOMS; CALCULATIONS; CORRELATION THEORY; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT SCATTERING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RADIATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 0030166628     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0030-4018(96)00123-X     Document Type: Article

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