The mode-locking transition of random lasers

Nature Photonics

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 615-617

  Leonetti, Marco ^a   Conti, Claudio ^b   Lopez, Cefe ^a  

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

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

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EID: 80053568006     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2011.217     Document Type: Article

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