Random lasers as facinating new light sources

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6320, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wiersma, Diederik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anderson localization of optical waves; Interference; Light diffusion; Multiple scattering; Random lasers

Indexed keywords

LASER OPTICS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

ANDERSON LOCALIZATION; LIGHT DIFFUSION; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; RANDOM LASERS;

LIGHT SOURCES;

EID: 33751031332     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.682210     Document Type: Conference Paper

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