Reconfiguration of spectral absorption features using a frequency-chirped laser pulse

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 36, 2011, Pages 6548-6554

  Tian, Mingzhen ^a,b   Chang, Tiejun ^b,c   Merkel, Kristian D ^b,d   Babbitt, W Randall ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c I M System Group Inc   (United States)

^d S2 Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ATOMS; LASER EXCITATION; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ATOMIC POPULATION INVERSION; ELECTRONIC TRANSITION; FREQUENCY CHIRPED LASERS; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE; QUANTUM STATE PREPARATION; RARE-EARTH DOPED CRYSTALS; SPECTRAL ABSORPTION FEATURES; SPECTRAL DISTRIBUTION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84255172778     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.006548     Document Type: Article

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