Quantum-limited linewidth of a chaotic laser cavity

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 238101-238105

  Patra, M ^a   Schomerus, H ^a   Beenakker, C W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

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