Single-photon excitation of a coherent state: Catching the elementary step of stimulated light emission

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Zavatta, Alessandro ^a,b   Viciani, Silvia ^a,b   Bellini, Marco ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT STATE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EXCITATION; ELEMENTARY EXCITATION PROCESS; QUANTUM HOMODYNE TOMOGRAPHY;

COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; LIGHT EMISSION; QUANTUM THEORY; TOMOGRAPHY;

PHOTONS;

EID: 27144539193     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.72.023820     Document Type: Article

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