Observation of ultraslow light propagation in a Ruby crystal at room temperature

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2003, Pages

  Bigelow, Matthew S ^a   Lepeshkin, Nick N ^a   Boyd, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CRYSTALS; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GROUND STATE; HAMILTONIANS; LASERS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RUBY; TEMPERATURE;

AMPLITUDE MODULATED OPTICAL BEAMS; COHERENT POPULATION OSCILLATION; DENSITY MATRIX EQUATIONS OF MOTION; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATOR; GAUSSIAN-SHAPED LIGHT PULSES; QUANTUM COHERENCE EFFECT; SINGLE-LINE ARGON-ION LASER;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 0038304255     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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