Session P5: Coherent Control/Slow and Stopped Light

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Chair: Marin Pichler, Goucher College
Nittany Lion Inn - Boardroom I

Friday, May 30, 2008
11:00AM - 11:12AM

 P5.00001: Population transfer between two quantum states by piecewise chirping of femtosecond pulses
Sergey Zhdanovich , Evgeny Shapiro , Moshe Shapiro , John Hepburn , Valery Milner

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:12AM - 11:24AM

 P5.00002: Robust control by two chirped pulse trains in the presence of decoherence
Svetlana Malinovskaya

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:24AM - 11:36AM

 P5.00003: Quantum state control of a Raman-coupled spinor BEC
K.C. Wright , L.S. Leslie , N.P. Bigelow

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:36AM - 11:48AM

 P5.00004: Strong Field Coherent Control of Atomic Population Transfer
Stephen Clow , Uvo Holscher , Carlos Trallero , Thomas Weinacht

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:48AM - 12:00PM

 P5.00005: Orientation of ``asymmetric-top'' water molecules with shaped terahertz fields
Catherine Herne , Philip Bucksbaum

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:00PM - 12:12PM

 P5.00006: Continuous Measurement Quantum State Reconstruction in an Almost Decoherence-Free Protocol
Carlos Riofrio , Seth Merkel , Ivan Deutsch

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:12PM - 12:24PM

 P5.00007: Optimal control of light pulse storage and retrieval
Irina Novikova , Nathaniel Phillips , Alexey Gorshkov

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:24PM - 12:36PM

 P5.00008: Stored light optimization and optical depth
Mason Klein , Yanhong Xiao , Rita Kalra , Michael Hohensee , David F. Phillips , Ronald L. Walsworth

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:36PM - 12:48PM

 P5.00009: Image Storage in Hot Vapors
L. Zhao , T. Wang , Y. Xiao , S.F. Yelin

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:48PM - 1:00PM

 P5.00010: Observation of Refractive Index Enhancement with Vanishing Absorption.
Nicholas Proite , Brett Unks , Deniz Yavuz

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Friday, May 30, 2008
1:00PM - 1:12PM

 P5.00011: Demostration of Double Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in a Hot Atomic Vapor
Andrew MacRae , Geoff Campbell , Alexander Lvovsky

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Friday, May 30, 2008
1:12PM - 1:24PM

 P5.00012: Dynamical Evolution in the Propagation of Light in a Four-Level Medium
Frank A. Narducci , Jon P. Davis

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Friday, May 30, 2008
1:24PM - 1:36PM

 P5.00013: Observation of Raman self-focusing in an alkali-metal vapor cell
Brett Unks , Nicholas Proite , Jonathan Green , Deniz Yavuz

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