Fast-light in a photorefractive crystal for gravitational wave detection

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 20448-20456

  Yum, H N ^a   Salit, M ^b   Pati, G S ^c,d   Tseng, S ^d   Hemmer, P R ^a   Shahriar, M S ^b,d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE CRYSTALS; PROBES; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ANGULAR FREQUENCIES; ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; BANDWIDTH PRODUCT; FREQUENCY DIFFERENCES; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE DETECTION; NORMAL DISPERSION; SUPERLUMINAL LIGHT;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

BARIUM DERIVATIVE; BARIUM TITANATE; TITANIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; GRAVITY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GRAVITATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TITANIUM; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 57349200354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020448     Document Type: Article

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