Self-synchronization and dissipation-induced threshold in collective atomic recoil lasing

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Von Cube, C ^a   Slama, S ^a   Kruse, D ^a   Zimmermann, C ^a   Courteille, Ph W ^a   Robb, G R M ^b   Piovella, N ^c   Bonifacio, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED CIRCUITS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIFFUSION; DOPPLER EFFECT; ENERGY DISSIPATION; LASER BEAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHOTONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SAPPHIRE; SYNCHRONIZATION;

ATOMIC VELOCITY; COLLECTIVE ATOMIC RECOIL (CARL); COUPLED OSCILLATORS; LASING;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 19544364475     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.083601     Document Type: Article

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