Competition between spontaneous scattering and stimulated scattering in an injection-seeded Raman amplifier

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1854-1861

  Wessel, J G ^a   Repasky, K S ^a   Carlsten, J L ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 4244071242     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.53.1854     Document Type: Article

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