Polaritonic stop-band transparency via exciton-biexciton coupling in CuCl

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 574021-574024

  Chesi, S ^a   Artoni, M ^b   La Rocca, G C ^c   Bassani, F ^c   Mysyrowicz, A ^d  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c INFM   (Italy)

^d LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; EXCITONS; LIGHT PROPAGATION;

DETUNING;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0041917344     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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