Ultraslow optical solitons in a cold four-state medium

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  Wu, Ying ^a,b,c   Deng, L ^a  

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

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATOMS; ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; PHASE SHIFT; SOLITONS; VAPORIZATION; VELOCITY; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSIONS; KERR NONLINEAR EFFECT; NONLINEAR PHASE SHIFT; PROBE FIELDS;

PROBES;

EID: 19644401446     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.143904     Document Type: Article

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