Practical aspects of lasing without inversion in various media

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1882-1896

  Khurgin, Jacob B ^b   Rosencher, Emmanuel ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c THALES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; PHOTOIONIZATION; PUMPING (LASER); RELAXATION PROCESSES;

AUTOIONIZATION INDUCED COHERENCE; INTERSUBBAND LASERS; LASING THRESHOLD; PUMPING STRENGTH; RIGOROUS DENSITY MATRIX BASED LASING THEORY;

LASER THEORY;

EID: 0030289839     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.541674     Document Type: Article

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