Excess noise for coherent radiation propagating through amplifying random media

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 4059-4066

  Patra, M ^a   Beenakker, C W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0001704285     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.60.4059     Document Type: Article

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