Information storage and retrieval by stopping pulses of light1

Journal of Modern Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 255-284

  Bullough, R K ^a   Gibbs, H M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLITONS; TRANSPARENCY; VECTORS;

COHERENT POPULATION TRAPPING; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; QUANTUM EQUATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX TYPE THEORY; SELF INDUCED TRANSPARENCY;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0442295510     PISSN: 09500340     EISSN: 13623044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500340408235268     Document Type: Article

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