Relaxation and generation of hyperfine coherences in an optically pumped heavy-alkali-metal vapor undergoing double-resonance excitation

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 977-980

  Valles J A ^a   Alvarez, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

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EID: 4244028338     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.54.977     Document Type: Article

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