Steady-state Ab initio Laser Theory for N-level lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 474-488

  Cerjan, Alexander ^a   Chong, Yidong ^a   Ge, Li ^b   Stone, A Douglas ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

AB INITIO; MULTIMODE LASING; RATE EQUATIONS; STEADY STATE; TIME DOMAIN SOLUTION; TWO-LEVEL MODELS;

LASER THEORY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84855468789     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.000474     Document Type: Article

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