Biphoton generation in a two-level atomic ensemble

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Wen, Jianming ^a   Du, Shengwang ^b   Rubin, Morton H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DAMPING; MEASUREMENT THEORY; QUANTUM THEORY;

ATOMIC ENSEMBLE; DAMPING RATE; RABI FREQUENCY;

PHOTONS;

EID: 34047097730     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.75.033809     Document Type: Article

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