Lasing in a random amplifying medium: Spatiotemporal characteristics and nonadiabatic atomic dynamics

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 3 2, 2004, Pages

  Florescu, Lucia ^a   John, Sajeev ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; FEEDBACK; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PUMPING (LASER);

ATOMIC DYNAMICS; MAXWELL-BLOCH EQUATIONS; MULTIPLE-SCATTERING PATH; THRESHOLD PUMP INTENSITY;

LASER BEAM EFFECTS;

EID: 42749103114     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.036607     Document Type: Article

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