Photon storage in Λ -type optically dense atomic media. II. Free-space model

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Gorshkov, Alexey V ^a   André, Axel ^a   Lukin, Mikhail D ^a   Sørensen, Anders S ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DANISH NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL VARIABLES CONTROL; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PHOTONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; ATOMIC PHYSICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ADIABATIC REDUCTION; PHOTON GROUP VELOCITY; PHOTON STORAGE; TRANSITION LINEWIDTH;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; PHOTONS;

EID: 34548808580     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.033805     Document Type: Article

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