Absorption imaging of electromagnetically induced transparency in cold sodium atoms

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 013817-013811

  Mitsunaga, Masaharu ^a   Yamashita, Makoto ^a   Inoue, Hironobu ^b  

^a Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL VARIABLES CONTROL; PROBES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SODIUM;

ABSORPTION IMAGING; COUPLING BEAM; MAGNETOOPTICAL TRAP; MAXWELL PROPAGATION EQUATIONS; TRANSMISSIVITY;

ATOMS;

EID: 0034230103     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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