Observation of inversionless gain and field-assisted lasing in a nearly ideal three-level cascade-type atomic system

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 2402-2407

  Sellin, P B ^a   Wilson, G A ^a   Meduri, K K ^a   Mossberg, T W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

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EID: 0000996203     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.54.2402     Document Type: Article

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