Unconventional modes in lasers with spatially varying gain and loss

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Ge, Li ^a   Chong, Y D ^b   Rotter, S ^c   Tureci H E ^a   Stone, A D ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH INTENSITY; LASING MODES; PASSIVE CAVITY; S-MATRIX; SPATIALLY INHOMOGENEOUS; SURFACE MODES; TRANSMISSION RESONANCE;

SCATTERING PARAMETERS;

RESONANCE;

EID: 84856725470     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.84.023820     Document Type: Article

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