Dark resonances with variable Doppler sensitivity

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Bolkart, Christian ^a   Rostohar, Danijela ^a   Weitz, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DARK RESONANCES; DOPPLER SENSITIVITY; THERMAL GAS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; DOPPLER EFFECT; LASER BEAMS; PHOTONS;

RUBIDIUM;

EID: 26944465795     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.71.043816     Document Type: Article

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