Tunable photonic band gaps with coherently driven atoms in optical lattices

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Petrosyan, David ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; LIGHT REFLECTION; RELAXATION PROCESSES; TUNING;

INDEX MODULATION; QUANTUM FIELDS;

ENERGY GAP;

EID: 36248967548     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.053823     Document Type: Article

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