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Journal of Optics B Quantum and Semiclassical Optics

Gain without inversion at two symmetrical sidebands of resonance in cold free87Rb atoms: an experimental proposal

V. Ahufinger, R Corbal n

Published May 7, 2003• 7 citations
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Abstract

We propose an experiment for obtaining about 0.4% inversionless gain at the sidebands of resonance in cold free 87 Rb atoms. This gain is of the same order of magnitude as the one already observed near resonance (Kitching and Hollberg 1999 Phys. Rev. A 59 4685).
DOI
10.1088/1464-4266/5/3/311

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