Observation of a red-blue detuning asymmetry in matter-wave superradiance

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 22, 2010, Pages

  Deng, L ^a   Hagley, E W ^a   Cao, Qiang ^b   Wang, Xiaorui ^b   Luo, Xinyu ^b   Wang, Ruquan ^b   Payne, M G ^a   Yang, Fan ^c   Zhou, Xiaoji ^c   Chen, Xuzong ^c   Zhan, Mingsheng ^d,e  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC GAS; CONDENSATE DENSITY; DETUNED; DETUNINGS; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; LASER DETUNING; MATTER WAVES; PHOTON RESONANCE; PUMP LASER; PUMP LIGHT; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; RADIATION; SUPERRADIANCE;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 78649380824     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.220404     Document Type: Article

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