Physical Review A

Comment on ‘‘Lasing without inversion in a V system due to trapping of modified atomic states’’

Yifu Zhu, Min Xiao

Published Mar 1, 1994• 9 citations

Abstract

We point out a mistake in a recent paper [Tan, Lu, and Harrison, Phys. Rev. A 46, R3613 (1992)] and show that, contrary to the authors' claim, lasing without inversion is impossible in a closed V system driven by a single coherent field only.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.49.2203

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