Intensity-dependent dispersion under conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency in coherently prepared multistate atoms

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Greentree, Andrew D ^a,b   Richards, Derek ^a   Vaccaro, J A ^c   Durrant, A V ^a   De Echaniz, S R ^d   Segal, D M ^d   Marangos, J P ^d  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; GROUND STATE; NONLINEAR OPTICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PROBES; QUANTUM THEORY; TRANSPARENCY;

COHERENTLY PREPARED MULTISTATE ATOMS; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; INTENSITY DEPENDENT DISPERSION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION;

EID: 0038301532     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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