Superluminal propagation via coherent manipulation of the Raman gain process

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Agarwal, G S ^a   Dasgupta, Shubhrangshu ^a  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; LASER PULSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONS; RESONANCE;

ATOMIC VAPORS; DENSITY MATRIX EQUATIONS; PULSE PROPAGATION; RAMAN GAIN PROCESS; SUPERLUMINAL PROPAGATION;

RAMAN SCATTERING;

EID: 19544372087     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.023802     Document Type: Article

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