Slow light produced by far-off-resonance Raman scattering

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 93-101

  Kien, Fam Le ^a,b,c,d   Liang, Jia Qi ^a,b   Hakuta, Kohzo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c HANOI UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Off resonance; Slow light; Solid hydrogen; Stimulated Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONS;

SOLID HYDROGEN;

RAMAN SCATTERING;

EID: 0037275757     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2002.807969     Document Type: Review

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