Gain narrowing in few-atom systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Savels, Tom ^a   Mosk, Allard P ^b   Lagendijk, Ad ^a,b  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MULTIPLE SCATTERING;

DENSITY MATRIX APPROACH; MICROSCOPIC SYSTEMS; SPECTRAL MODE REDISTRIBUTION;

GAIN CONTROL;

EID: 33847711421     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.103601     Document Type: Article

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