Sub- and superluminal propagation of intense pulses in media with saturated and reverse absorption

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

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

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COHERENT LIGHT; CRYOGENICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GROUND STATE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHASE SHIFT; PULSE MODULATION; RUBY; SOLID STATE PHYSICS; TRANSPARENCY;

INTENSE PULSES; REVERSE ABSORPTION; SUBLUMINAL PROPAGATION; SUPERLUMINAL PROPAGATION;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 17044452738     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.203901     Document Type: Article

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