Observation of picosecond superfluorescent pulses in rubidium atomic vapor pumped by 100-fs laser pulses

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Ariunbold, Gombojav O ^a,b   Kash, Michael M ^a,c   Sautenkov, Vladimir A ^a,d   Li, Hebin ^a,h   Rostovtsev, Yuri V ^a,e   Welch, George R ^a   Scully, Marlan O ^a,f,g  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MONGOLIA   (Mongolia)

^c LAKE FOREST COLLEGE   (United States)

^d LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM-FIELD INTERACTION; ATOMIC COHERENCE; ATOMIC VAPOR; DELAY TIME; DEPHASING; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FS LASER PULSE; LASER POWER; PEAK INTENSITY; PICOSECOND TIME; PICOSECONDS; REFERENCE INPUTS; RUBIDIUM ATOMS; S STATE; SAMPLE LENGTH; SIMULATION-BASED; SUPERFLUORESCENCE; TIME DURATION; TIME-SCALES;

CAMERAS; EXCITED STATES; LASER PULSES; PUMPING (LASER); RUBIDIUM; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; VAPORS;

ATOMS;

EID: 78650961126     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.043421     Document Type: Article

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