Light propagation from subluminal to superluminal in a three-level Λ-type system

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 335, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 68-75

  Sun, Hui ^a,b   Guo, Hong ^a,b   Bai, Yanfeng ^a,b   Han, Dingan ^b   Fan, Shuangli ^b   Chen, Xuzong ^a  

^a Institute of Software   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Group velocity; Subluminal; Superluminal

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT VELOCITY; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

CONTROL FIELDS; EXTERNAL CONTROL; GROUP VELOCITIES; RELATIVE PHASE; SUBLUMINAL; SUPERLUMINAL; THREE LEVEL SYSTEMS; TYPE SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROL SYSTEM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FIELD EMISSION; LIGHT; MAGNETIC FIELD; PHOTODYNAMICS; VELOCITY;

EID: 12344295441     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2004.11.055     Document Type: Article

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