Coherent backscattering of light by an inhomogeneous cloud of cold atoms

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Labeyrie, Guillaume ^a   Delande, Dominique ^b   Müller, Cord A ^a,c   Miniatura, Christian ^a   Kaiser, Robin ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE KASTLER BROSSEL   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER BEAMS; LASER TUNING; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; RUBIDIUM;

COHERENT BACKSCATTERING; COLD ATOMS; GAUSSIAN DENSITY; INHOMOGENEOUS CLOUDS;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 0037518473     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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