Observation of picosecond UV pulses produced by coherent scattering of IR femtosecond pulses in atomic rubidium vapor

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 515-520

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

^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 COLORADO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^g PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CAMERAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; EXCITED STATES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; RUBIDIUM; VAPORS;

ATOM-FIELD INTERACTION; FEMTOSECOND PULSE; FS PULSE; PICOSECONDS; RUBIDIUM ATOMS; RUBIDIUM VAPOR; TEMPORAL SHAPE; TIME DURATION; TWO-PHOTON TRANSITIONS; UV LIGHT;

COHERENT SCATTERING;

EID: 79952164544     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.28.000515     Document Type: Article

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