Studies of group-velocity reduction and pulse regeneration with and without the adiabatic approximation

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 438021-4380212

  Payne, M G ^a   Deng, L ^b   Schmitt, Chris ^a   Anderson, Shannon ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LASER TUNING; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PHOTONS; RESONANCE;

PROBE LASERS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 14944385877     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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