Anomalous dispersion and negative group velocity in a coherence-free cold atomic medium

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Brown, William G A ^a   McLean, Russell ^a   Sidorov, Andrei ^a   Hannaford, Peter ^a   Akulshin, Alexander ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; GROUND STATE; LASER COOLING; LIGHT; LIGHT VELOCITY;

ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; ATOMIC MEDIUM; GROUND STATE COHERENCE; HETERODYNE METHOD; LASER-COOLED; MAGNETOOPTICAL TRAPS; NEGATIVE GROUP VELOCITY; SPECTRAL REGION;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 59949097158     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.25.000C82     Document Type: Article

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