Inversionless lasing and photon statistics in a V-type atomic system

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 1065-1071

  Zhu, Yifu ^a   Rubiera, A I ^a   Xiao, Min ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATOMS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCIES; LASERS; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTONS; PUMPING (LASER); STATISTICAL METHODS;

ATOMIC COHERENCE; ATOMIC POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; INVERSIONLESS LASERS; LASER INTENSITY; LASING WITHOUT INVERSION; POISSONIAN PHOTON STATISTICS;

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS;

EID: 0030087389     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.53.1065     Document Type: Article

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