Slowing down of a guided light field along a nanofiber in a cold atomic gas

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Le Kien, Fam ^a,b   Hakuta, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; NANOFIBERS; TRANSPARENCY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

ATOMIC GAS; AXIAL PROPAGATION; COLD ATOMIC GAS; DETUNING; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY-INDUCED TRANSPARENCIES; FIELD-COUPLINGS; GROUP VELOCITIES; GUIDED LIGHTS; GUIDED MODES; PHOTON FLUXES; PROBE LIGHTS; TRANSVERSE PLANES; TRANSVERSE PROFILES;

GASES;

EID: 59449109801     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.013818     Document Type: Article

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