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Research in Optical Sciences

Incoherent Light As a Control Resource

Alexander Nikolaevich Pechen

Published Jan 1, 2012• 2 citations
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Abstract

We discuss the use of incoherent light as a resource for controlling the atomic dynamics and review the method for engineering arbitrary pure and mixed atomic states using a special combination of incoherent and coherent light.
DOI
10.1364/hilas.2012.jt2a.23

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