Storage of light in atomic vapor

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 783-786

  Phillips, D F ^a   Fleischhauer, A ^a   Mair, A ^a   Walsworth, R L ^a   Lukin, M D ^b  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRAPS; GROUND STATE; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PHOTONS; RUBIDIUM;

LIGHT STORAGE TECHNIQUE; ZEEMAN COHERENCES;

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

EID: 4244213842     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.783     Document Type: Article

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