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Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences Physics

Photon echo under two-quantum excitation of superradiance in a cavity

Ashat M. Basharov, N. V. Znamenskiı̆, A. Yu. Shashkov

Published May 1, 2008• 0 citations
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Abstract

The superradiance, photon echo, and coherence transformation in three-level cascade-type atoms have been theoretically investigated for the case where the frequency of an optically allowed transition from the upper level coincides with the cavity frequency.
DOI
10.3103/s1062873808050225

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