When does single-mode lasing become a condensation phenomenon?

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 26704-26713

  Fischer, Baruch ^a   Weill, Rafi ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN STATISTICS; CONDENSATION PHENOMENON; LANGEVIN; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; OPTICAL CAVITIES; PHOTON CONDENSATION; PHOTON ENERGY; PHOTONIC MODES; POWER-LAW DEPENDENCES; SHARP TRANSITION; SINGLE MODE LASING; SINGLE-MODE OSCILLATION; SPECTRAL FILTERING;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LASER; PHOTON; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LASERS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 84870600099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.026704     Document Type: Conference Paper

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