Self ordering threshold and superradiant backscattering to slow a fast gas beam in a ring cavity with counter propagating pump

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 6019-6035

  Maes, C ^a   Asboth J K ^b,c   Ritsch, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MIRRORS; MOLECULAR BEAMS; OPTICAL PUMPING; VELOCITY CONTROL;

FAST GAS BEAMS; PROPAGATING PUMPS; SELF ORDERING THRESHOLD; SUPERRADIANT BACKSCATTERING;

BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 34248556287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.006019     Document Type: Article

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