Steep atomic dispersion induced by velocity-selective optical pumping

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 15463-15468

  Akulshin, Alexander ^a   Singh, Mandip ^a   Sidorov, Andrei ^a   Hannaford, Peter ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT VELOCITY; OPTICAL PUMPING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; HETERODYNE METHOD; SPECTRAL REGION; VELOCITY SELECTIVE;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 53249135070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.015463     Document Type: Article

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