Taming random lasers through active spatial control of the pump

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Bachelard, N ^a   Andreasen, J ^b   Gigan, S ^a   Sebbah, P ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTROL; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; EXERCISE CONTROL; ITERATIVE OPTIMIZATION; LASING MODES; LOCAL PUMPING; RANDOM LASER EMISSION; RANDOM LASERS; SCATTERING REGIME; SINGLE MODE OPERATION; SPATIAL CONTROL; SPATIAL OVERLAP; SPATIAL SELECTIVITY;

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; LASER BEAMS;

PUMPS;

EID: 84864265212     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.033903     Document Type: Article

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