Demonstration of a slow-light laser radar

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 15760-15769

  Schweinsberg, Aaron ^a   Shi, Zhimin ^a   Vornehm, Joseph E ^a   Boyd, Robert W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RADAR;

HIGH RESOLUTION; LATERAL DIMENSION; MULTI APERTURE; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SLOW-LIGHT DELAY; STEERING ANGLES; SYNCHRONIZED PULSE;

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 80051723496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.015760     Document Type: Article

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