Transit-time effects in coherent transient spectroscopy

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 5262-5274

  Cohen, J L ^a   Berman, P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATOMS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LASER PULSES; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VELOCITY;

GRATING PHOTON ECHO; MAXWELL-BLOCH EQUATIONS; PHOTON ECHO SPECTROSCOPY; SLOWLY VARYING ENVELOPE APPROXIMATION; STIMULATED PHOTON ECHO; THIN MEDIUM APPROXIMATION; TRANSIT TIME EFFECTS;

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0030401026     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.54.5262     Document Type: Article

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