Coherent control of spontaneous emission near a photonic band edge

Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Woldeyohannes, Mesfin ^a   John, Sajeev ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coherent control; Optical memory; Photon localization; Photonic band gap materials; Spontaneous emission

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; LASER PULSES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL DISK STORAGE;

COHERENT CONTROL; OPTICAL MEMORY DEVICE; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; RABI FREQUENCY;

SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

EID: 0037723041     PISSN: 14644266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4266/5/2/201     Document Type: Article

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