Asymmetries between absorption and stimulated emission in driven three-level systems

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 063804-063801

  Lee, Hwang ^a   Rostovtsev, Yuri ^b   Scully, Marlan O ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STIMULATED EMISSION;

QUANTUM INTERFERENCE;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 11144289742     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.62.063804     Document Type: Article

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