Role of inhomogeneous broadening in lasing without inversion in ladder systems

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 1060-1064

  Vemuri, Gautam ^a   Agarwal, Girish S ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ATOMIC PHYSICS; DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FREQUENCIES; GAIN MEASUREMENT; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TRANSPARENCY;

ATOMIC FREQUENCY; DOPPLER BROADENING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; LASING WITHOUT INVERSION; RABI FREQUENCY;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0030081455     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.53.1060     Document Type: Article

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