Coherent random lasing: Trapping of light by the disorder

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5472, Issue , 2004, Pages 74-86

  Raikh, M E ^a   Apalkov, V M ^a   Shapiro, B ^b   Polson, R C ^a   Vardeny, Z V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Power Fourier transform; Random lasers; Random resonators

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE FEEDBACK; POWER FOURIER TRANSFORMS; RANDOM LASERS; RANDOM RESONATORS;

COHERENT LIGHT; FEEDBACK; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTONS; RESONATORS;

LASERS;

EID: 4344614988     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.543550     Document Type: Conference Paper

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