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Latin America Optics and Photonics Conference

Nonlinear atomic spectroscopy in a random porous medium

S. Villalba, L. Lenci, Athanasios Laliotis, Daniel Bloch, A. Lezama, H. Failache

Published Jan 1, 2014• 1 citation
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Abstract

We studied a novel spectroscopy setup where alkali atoms are infused in random micro-porous glass and the light probing the atoms have a diffuse nature after the propagation in this strong scattering medium.
DOI
10.1364/laop.2014.lf2a.5

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