A giant electro-optic effect using polarizable dark states

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 890-894

  Mohapatra, Ashok K ^a   Bason, Mark G ^a   Butscher, Björn ^b   Weatherill, Kevin J ^a   Adams, Charles S ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PARTICLE BEAMS; QUANTUM OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RYDBERG STATES;

ELECTRO OPTIC COEFFICIENT; ELECTROOPTIC EFFECTS; KERR MEDIA; LASER TECHNOLOGIES; LIGHT FIELDS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RYDBERG ENERGY LEVELS; SINGLE-PHOTON LEVEL;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 55549090671     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1091     Document Type: Article

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