Coherent radiation by a spherical medium of resonant atoms

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Prasad, Sudhakar ^a   Glauber, Roy J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT RADIATION; COHERENT WAVES; COOPERATIVE PROCESS; DECAY RATE; DIFFERENT MODES; DIFFERENT ORDER; EIGEN MODES; EMITTED RADIATION; FREQUENCY SHIFT; FREQUENCY SPECTRA; INITIAL EXCITATION; INNER CORE; LARGE SPHERES; MULTIPOLE FIELDS; MULTIPOLES; ONE DIMENSION; PLANE-WAVE EXCITATION; RADIATION FIELD; RESONANT ATOM; RESONANT MEDIUM; RICH STRUCTURE; SCALAR FIELDS; SLAB GEOMETRY; SPHERICAL GEOMETRIES; TEMPORAL OSCILLATIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEMS;

DECAY (ORGANIC); JOINTS (ANATOMY); SPECTROSCOPY;

SPHERES;

EID: 78650992951     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.063805     Document Type: Article

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