Stop and go control of light in hot atomic gases

Journal of Modern Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 14-15, 2002, Pages 2637-2643

  Rostovtsev, Yuri ^a   Kocharovskaya, Olga ^a   Scully, Marlan O ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY MEASUREMENT (OPTICAL); ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FOURIER OPTICS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT VELOCITY; MICROWAVES; TRANSPARENCY;

ATOMIC GASES; LIGHT TRAPPING;

GASES;

EID: 0037146523     PISSN: 09500340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0950034021000011275     Document Type: Conference Paper

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