Optical bistability at low light level due to collective atomic recoil

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Vengalattore, M ^a   Hafezi, M ^a   Lukin, M D ^a   Prentiss, M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS;

BI-STABILITY; COLLECTIVE MOTIONS; COOPERATIVITY; DISPERSIVE MEDIUM; DISPERSIVE PROPERTIES; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS; HIGH GAIN; INPUT POWERS; LOW LIGHT LEVEL; OPTICAL CONTROLLING; OPTICAL FIELDS; OPTICAL NON-LINEARITIES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDING; OPTICAL-; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRACOLD GASES;

OPTICAL BISTABILITY;

EID: 49749138963     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.063901     Document Type: Article

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