Coherent phenomena due to double-dark states in a system with decay interference

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Fountoulakis, Antonios ^a   Terzis, Andreas F ^a   Paspalakis, Emmanuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT PHENOMENA; COHERENT POPULATION TRAPPING; DOUBLE-DARK STATES; QUANTUM SYSTEMS;

DECAY (ORGANIC); MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; TRANSPARENCY;

OPTICS;

EID: 33645011758     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.033811     Document Type: Article

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