Lévy statistics of emission from a novel random amplifying medium: An optical realization of the arrhenius cascade

Optics Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1806-1808

  Sharma, Divya ^a   Ramachandran, Hema ^a   Kumar, N ^a  

^a RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRHENIUS CASCADE; INTENSITY; OPTICAL REALIZATION; PASSIVE SCATTERERS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTONS; PRODUCT DESIGN; STATISTICS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 33745912810     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.31.001806     Document Type: Article

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