Slow light in doppler-broadened two-level systems

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Agarwal, G S ^a   Dey, Tarak Nath ^a  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATOMS; DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL PUMPING;

ATOMIC TRANSITION; DOPPLER-BROADENED TWO-LEVEL SYSTEM; SATURATION ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; TWO-LEVEL ATOM;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 1142292271     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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