Collisionally Aided Coherent Emission at an Optical Frequency
- 5 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 58 (1) , 21-24
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.58.21
Abstract
Experimental evidence is presented for collisionally aided excitation of electronic-state, optical coherence in Na. A simple theoretical model of the reaction is proposed which gives agreement with experiment.
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