Slow, ultraslow, stored, and frozen light

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2002, Pages

  Rostovtsav, Yuri ^a   Kocharovskaya, Olga ^a   Welch, George R ^a   Scully, Marlan O ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RESONANCE; TRANSPARENCY;

ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY (EIT);

LIGHT VELOCITY;

EID: 0036627042     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/opn.13.6.000044     Document Type: Article

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