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Title

Light guiding light: nonlinear refraction in rubidium vapor

Author(s)

Andersen, J. A.;  Friese, M. E. J.;  Truscott, A. G.;  Ficek, Z.;  Drummond, P. D.;  Heckenberg, N. R.;  Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H.

Abstract

A quantum mechanical model of the interaction of rubidium atoms with two lasers was developed. The dielectric polarization of the rubidium as a function of the frequency was predicted using a quantum mechanical model. The presence of two major isotopes of rubidium was studied.

Publication type

Journal article

Source

Physical Review A, Vol. 63, no. 2 (2001), article no. 023820

Publication year

2001

FOR Code(s)

0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics;  0204 Condensed Matter Physics;  0205 Optical Physics

Keyword(s)

Dielectric polarisation;  Dielectric properties;  Light polarisation;  Light refraction;  Nonlinear optics;  Quantum optics;  Rubidium;  Vapors

Publisher

American Physical Society

ISSN

1050-2947

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.63.023820

Copyright

Copyright © 2001 The American Physical Society. Published version of this paper reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

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