Pump-beam-instability limits to Raman-gain-doublet "fast-light" pulse propagation

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 638011-638017

  Stenner, Michael D ^a   Gauthier, Daniel J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; RAMAN SCATTERING;

PULSE ADVANCEMENT;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 18244420648     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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