Coherence-induced effects in pulse-pair propagation through absorbing media

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 3394-3399

  Vemuri, Gautam ^a,b   Vasavada, K V ^a,b   Agarwal, G S ^a,b   Zhang, Q ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

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EID: 5944261753     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.54.3394     Document Type: Article

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