Quantum noise in a laser with nonorthogonal polarization modes

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 338121-3381213

  Van Der Lee, A M ^a   Mieremet, A L ^a   Van Exter, M P ^a   Van Druten, N J ^a   Woerdman, J P ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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