Coherent and phase-sensitive phenomena of ultrashort laser pulses propagating in three-level Λ -type systems studied with the finite-difference time-domain method

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Loiko, Yurii ^a,b   Serrat, Carles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PULSE TIME MODULATION; QUANTUM THEORY; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

OPTICAL TRANSITIONS; PHASE SENSITIVE PHENOMENON; QUANTUM SYSTEMS; SELF-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY (SIT);

LASER PULSES;

EID: 33745027019     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.063809     Document Type: Article

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