Random laser thresholds in cw and pulsed regimes

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Noginov, M A ^a   Fowlkes, I N ^a   Zhu, G ^a   Novak, J ^a  

^a NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BANDWIDTH; FUNCTIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEODYMIUM; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; QUANTUM THEORY;

PUMPING PULSES; QUANTUM YIELDS; RANDOM LASERS; THRESHOLD PUMPING;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 19744365251     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.043811     Document Type: Article

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