Realization of a single and closed λ-system in a room-temperature three-level coherently prepared resonant medium with narrow D1 hyperfine splittings

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 22, 2009, Pages

  Li, K ^a,b   Deng, L ^a   Payne, M G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC SPECIES; CONTROL FIELDS; COPROPAGATING; DOPPLER; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; HYPERFINE SPLITTINGS; HYPERFINES; LASER POLARIZATION; RESONANT MEDIUM; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STATE PREPARATION; THREE-LEVEL;

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTUM OPTICS; RUBIDIUM;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 71949115096     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3269997     Document Type: Article

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