Pulse compression by parametric beating with a prepared Raman coherence

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2002, Pages

  Le Kien, Fam ^a   Hakuta, K ^a   Sokolov, A V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; RAMAN SCATTERING; VELOCITY;

PARAMETRIC BEATING; PULSE COMPRESSION; RAMAN COHERENCE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0036701678     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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