Temperature-tunable random lasing: Numerical calculations and experiments

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 201-207

  Mujumdar, Sushil ^a   Cavalieri, Stefano ^a,b   Wiersma, Diederik S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER TUNING; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

MULTIPLE-SCATTERING MEDIA; TEMPERATURE-TUNABLE RANDOM LASING;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0347268941     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.000201     Document Type: Article

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