Suppressing normal mode excitation by quantum interference in a cavity-atom system

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 7860-7868

  Zhang, Jiepeng ^a   Hernandez, Gessler ^a   Zhu, Yifu ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; LASER EXCITATION; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA;

ATOMIC SYSTEM; CAVITY MODE; EXCITATION CHANNELS; FREE SPACES; NORMAL MODES; OPTICAL CAVITIES; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; VACUUM RABI SPLITTING;

ATOM LASERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 44649115735     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.007860     Document Type: Article

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