Quantum-mechanical interference between optical transitions and the effect of laser phase noise

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 552-560

  Camparo, J C ^a,d   Lambropoulos, P ^b,c  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHASE CONTROL; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTONS; RESONANCE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; XENON;

DENSITY MATRIX EQUATIONS; LASER PHASE NOISE; OPTICAL TRANSITIONS; PHASE DIFFUSION FIELD;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0030782477     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.55.552     Document Type: Article

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