Control of Light Pulse Propagation with Only a Few Cold Atoms in a High-Finesse Microcavity

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 23, 2002, Pages

  Shimizu, Yukiko ^a   Shiokawa, Noritsugu ^a   Yamamoto, Noriaki ^a   Kozuma, Mikio ^a   Kuga, Takahiro ^a   Deng, L ^b   Hagley, E W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ATOMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MAGNETOOPTICAL DEVICES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RUBIDIUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COLD ATOMS; LIGHT PULSE PROPAGATION; OPTICAL MICROCAVITY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037011732     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.233001     Document Type: Article

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