Resonance-driven random lasing

Nature Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 429-432

  Gottardo, Stefano ^a   Sapienza, Riccardo ^b   García, Pedro D ^b   Blanco, Alvaro ^b   Wiersma, Diederik S ^a   López, Cefe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY WINDOWS; GAIN FREQUENCIES; LASING PROPERTIES; LASING WAVELENGTH; MONODISPERSE SPHERES; MULTIPLE LIGHT SCATTERING; SCATTERING RESONANCE; SCATTERING STRENGTH;

LASER BEAMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

SCATTERING;

EID: 46349109870     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2008.102     Document Type: Article

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