Three-photon-absorption resonance for all-optical atomic clocks

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Zibrov, Sergei ^a,b,c,d   Novikova, Irina ^d   Phillips, David F ^d   Taichenachev, Aleksei V ^e   Yudin, Valeriy I ^e   Walsworth, Ronald L ^a,d   Zibrov, Alexander S ^a,c,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH NUCLEAR UNIVERSITY MEPHI   (Russian Federation)

^c LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^e NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER GASES; COHERENT POPULATION TRAPPING;

ATOMIC CLOCKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESONANCE;

LIGHT ABSORPTION;

EID: 27144541462     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.72.011801     Document Type: Article

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