Photon-photon correlations as a probe of vacuum-induced coherence effects

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Das, Sumanta ^a   Agarwal, G S ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL TRANSITIONS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PHOTONS; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

COHERENCE EFFECTS; PHOTON-PHOTON CORRELATIONS;

OPTICAL CORRELATION;

EID: 41549120223     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.033850     Document Type: Article

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