Controlling optical bistability in a three-level atomic system

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 418011-418014

  Joshi, Amitabh ^a   Brown, Andy ^a   Wang, Hai ^b   Xiao, Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RUBIDIUM;

OPTICAL RING CAVITY;

OPTICAL BISTABILITY;

EID: 0038308842     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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