Observation of electromagnetically induced transparency for a squeezed vacuum with the time domain method

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 11849-11854

  Arikawa, M ^a   Honda, K ^a   Akamatsu, D ^a   Yokoi, Y ^a   Akiba, K ^a   Nagatsuka, S ^a   Furusawa, A ^b   Kozuma, M ^a,c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; OPTICAL LOSSES; RUBIDIUM; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

COLD ATOMS; HOMODYNE METHODS; SQUEEZED VACUUM STATES;

TRANSPARENCY;

EID: 34648817121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.011849     Document Type: Article

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