Propagation of laser pulses and coherent population transfer in dissipative three-level systems: An adiabatic dressed-state picture

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 794-803

  Fleischhauer, Michael ^a   Manka, Aaron S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b U S ARMY SPACE AND MISSILE DEFENSE COMMAND   (United States)

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EID: 4243484937     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.54.794     Document Type: Article

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