Propagation of smooth and discontinuous pulses through materials with very large or very small group velocities

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3117-3126

  Bigelow, Matthew S ^a,c   Lepeshkin, Nick N ^a,d   Shin, Heedeuk ^a   Boyd, Robert W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

^d SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICS; OSCILLATIONS;

COHERENT POPULATION OSCILLATIONS; FRACTIONAL DELAY;

WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 33644754603     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/18/11/017     Document Type: Article

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