Optical precursors with self-induced transparency

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  MacKe, Bruno ^a   Ségard, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; BRILLOUIN PRECURSOR; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; MAXWELL-BLOCH EQUATION; OPTICAL PRECURSORS; PROPAGATING FIELD; SELF-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

TRANSPARENCY;

EID: 74949126440     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.015803     Document Type: Article

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