Storing and processing optical information with ultraslow light in Bose-Einstein condensates

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 5 B, 2004, Pages

  Dutton, Zachary ^a,b   Hau, Lene Vestergaard ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CONDENSATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; FUNCTIONS; LASER PULSES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SWITCHING; TRANSPARENCY;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES (BEC); ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY (EIT); LIGHT PULSES; OPTICAL INFORMATION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 37649030745     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.053831     Document Type: Article

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