Four-wave-mixing stopped light in hot atomic rubidium vapour

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 103-106

  Camacho, Ryan M ^a,b   Vudyasetu, Praveen K ^a   Howell, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING; COHERENT OPTICAL; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; FOUR-WAVE-MIXING PROCESS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROCESS; NONLINEAR PROCESS; STOPPED LIGHT; STORAGE SCHEMES;

DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRIC FIELDS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; RUBIDIUM; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VAPORS;

ATOMS;

EID: 59349095504     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2008.290     Document Type: Article

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