Large negative and positive delay of optical pulses in coherently prepared dense Rb vapor with buffer gas

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Mikhailov, Eugeniy E ^a,b   Sautenkov, Vladimir A ^a,c   Novikova, Irina ^a,d   Welch, George R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; INERT GASES; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATORS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PROBES; RESONANCE; RUBIDIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

BUFFER GAS; COHERENT POPULATION TRAPPING (CPT); OPTICAL PULSES; PULSE PROPAGATION;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 4143083889     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.69.063808     Document Type: Article

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