Storage and retrieval of thermal light in warm atomic vapor

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Cho, Young Wook ^a   Kim, Yoon Ho ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC VAPOR; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; LIGHT FIELDS; PHOTON-NUMBER STATISTICS; SECOND-ORDER CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; STORAGE AND RETRIEVALS; TEMPORAL COHERENCE; THERMAL LIGHT; WARM RUBIDIUM VAPORS;

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

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 77957200933     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.033830     Document Type: Article

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