Dependence of the neodymium random laser threshold on the diameter of the pumped spot

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 677-685

  Bahoura, Messaoud ^a   Morris, Kaleem J ^b   Zhu, Guohua ^a   Noginov, M A ^a  

^a NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic wave propagation in random media; Random laser; Scattering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; PUMPING (LASER);

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN RANDOM MEDIA; RANDOM LASER;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 19344361914     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2005.845027     Document Type: Article

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