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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Interference stabilization of Rydberg atoms: theory and experiment

Mikhail Vladimirovich Fedorov

Published Mar 5, 1999• 0 citations
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Abstract

The existing theoretical and experimental works on interference stabilization of Rydberg atoms are overviewed. Physical origin of the phenomenon, its main features and the conditions of existence, as well as the main theoretical approaches used for its description are discussed.
DOI
10.1117/12.341457

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