Coherent backscattering of light with nonlinear atomic scatterers

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Wellens, T ^a,b   Gremaud B ^b   Delande, D ^b   Miniatura, C ^a  

^a INSTITUT NON LINÉAIRE DE NICE   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE KASTLER BROSSEL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAM EFFECTS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

MONOCHROMATIC LASER; PHOTODETECTION SIGNALS; TWO-PHOTON SCATTERING PROCESSES;

BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 33144460178     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.013802     Document Type: Article

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