A steady-state superradiant laser with less than one intracavity photon

Nature

Volumn 484, Issue 7392, 2012, Pages 78-81

  Bohnet, Justin G ^a   Chen, Zilong ^a   Weiner, Joshua M ^a   Meiser, Dominic ^a,b   Holland, Murray J ^a   Thompson, James K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b TECH X CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RUBIDIUM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLE; GRAVITY WAVE; MAGNITUDE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RUBIDIUM; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STABILIZATION; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM;

ARTICLE; ATOM; ATOMIC PARTICLE; DIPOLE; LASER; LIGHT; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; OPTICS; OSCILLATION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 84859470910     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10920     Document Type: Article

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