Spectral behavior of partially pumped weakly scattering random lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3418-3433

  Andreasen, Jonathan ^a,b   Cao, Hui ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; LASER BEAMS; PUMPS;

DOMINANT MECHANISM; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; FINE ADJUSTMENTS; LASING PEAKS; LASING THRESHOLD; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PUMPING RATE; RANDOM LASERS; RANDOM SYSTEMS; SPECTRAL BEHAVIORS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC NOISE;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 79951610225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.003418     Document Type: Article

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