Vacuum squeezing in atomic media via self-rotation

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 438151-4381510

  Matsko, A B ^a   Novikova, I ^a   Welch, G R ^a   Budker, D ^b   Kimball, D F ^b   Rochester, S M ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RUBIDIUM;

SELF-ROTATION;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 4243828391     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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