Slowdown of group velocity of light by means of phase coupling in photorefractive two-wave mixing

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1167-1173

  Zhang, Guoquan ^a   Dong, Rong ^a   Bo, Fang ^a   Xu, Jingjun ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CRYSTALS; DENSITY (OPTICAL); DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FREQUENCIES; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT VELOCITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONANCE;

GRATING VECTORS; PHASE COUPLING;

PHOTOREACTIVITY;

EID: 1442356057     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.001167     Document Type: Article

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