Steady optical spectra and light propagation dynamics in cold atomic samples with homogeneous or inhomogeneous densities

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2111-2119

  Zhang, Yan ^a   Xue, Yan ^a   Wang, Gang ^a   Cui, Cui Li ^a   Wang, Rong ^a   Wu, Jin Hui ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; FORWARD SCATTERING; PROBES;

ATOMIC SAMPLE; COLD ATOMS; DENSITY FUNCTIONS; DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; INHOMOGENEOUS DENSITY; OPTICAL RESPONSE; OPTICAL SPECTRA; PROBE PHOTONS; PROPAGATION DYNAMICS; REFLECTED PULSE; REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION; SPATIAL IN-HOMOGENEITY; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS; TRANSMITTED PULSE; TRAVELING WAVE; WAVE COUPLING;

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; COLD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COLD TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 79851498498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.002111     Document Type: Article

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