Inelastic wave mixing and multi-photon destructive interference based induced transparency in coherently prepared media

Optics Communications

Volumn 242, Issue 4-6, 2004, Pages 641-647

  Deng, L ^a   Payne, M G ^a   Garrett, W R ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Destructive interference; Hyper Raman; Induced transparency; Wave mixing

Indexed keywords

DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; HYPER-RAMAN; INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; WAVE MIXING;

ABSORPTION; ATTENUATION; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GROUND STATE; MIXING; PHOTONS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVES;

WAVE INTERFERENCE;

EID: 10444285279     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2004.09.005     Document Type: Article

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31. 1 will be small
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