Slow light in narrow paraffin-coated vapor cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Klein, M ^a,b   Hohensee, M ^a,b   Nemiroski, A ^c   Xiao, Y ^a   Phillips, D F ^a   Walsworth, R L ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI-VAPOR CELLS; ATOMIC COHERENCE; ATOMIC MOTION; BUFFER GAS; CELL GEOMETRIES; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; HYPERFINES; RB VAPORS; SLOW LIGHT; STORED LIGHT; VAPOR CELLS;

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; PARAFFIN WAXES; PARAFFINS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RUBIDIUM; VAPORS;

CELL MEMBRANES;

EID: 69949140243     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3207825     Document Type: Article

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