Elimination, reversal and directional bias of opticaldiffraction

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 665-668

  Firstenberg, Ofer ^a   London, Paz ^a   Shuker, Moshe ^a   Ron, Amiram ^a   Davidson, Nir ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; LIGHT; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; SLOW LIGHT;

ATOMIC MEDIUM; DIFFRACTION LENS; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; IMAGE ENTANGLEMENT; LIGHT AMPLIFICATION; QUANTUM IMAGES; THERMAL ATOMIC MOTION; WAVEVECTOR SPACE;

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 70249143559     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1358     Document Type: Article

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