Absorption resonance and large negative delay in rubidium vapor with a buffer gas

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 425-428

  Mikhailov, Eugeniy E ^a   Sautenkov, Vladimir A ^a   Rostovtsev, Yuri V ^a   Welch, George R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; FREQUENCIES; GROUND STATE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATORS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PHOTONS; RESONANCE; RUBIDIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS (EOM); ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY (EIT);

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 1342265401     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.000425     Document Type: Article

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