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Annual Meeting Optical Society of America

Lasing without inversion through population trapping in the sodium D1 line

Xingfu Li, Gunasiri G. Padmabandu, Ching Wang, Edward S. Fry, Marian O. Scully

Published Jan 1, 1993• 0 citations
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Abstract

Atomic coherence effects are shown to lead to the suppression of optical pumping, to the switching of light on and off when the coherence effects are turned on and off, and especially to lasing without inversion.
DOI
10.1364/oam.1993.tha.4

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