Sensitive measurement of radiation trapping in cold-atom clouds by intensity correlation detection

Optics Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 2713-2715

  Stites, Ronald ^a   Beeler, Matthew ^a   Feeney, Laura ^a   Kim, Soo ^a   Bali, Samir ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTENSITY CORRELATION DETECTION; OPTICAL DEPTH (OD); RADIATION TRAPPING; SENSITIVE MEASUREMENT;

ANISOTROPY; DOPPLER EFFECT; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

OPTICAL CORRELATION;

EID: 10644295635     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.29.002713     Document Type: Article

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