LASING WITHOUT INVERSION - THE DOUBLE LAMBDA-SCHEME

被引:69
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KOCHAROVSKAYA, O
LI, RD
MANDEL, P
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[1] Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, Campus Plaine
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10.1016/0030-4018(90)90437-X
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We determine the conditions under which a four-level medium in a resonant cavity can start lasing when there is no population inversion between the lasing levels. The mechanism which is used is the creation of low-frequency coherence by a pair of external pump fields. it is shown that lasing with frequency upconversion requires population inversion at (low-frequency) nonlasing transitions. © 1990.
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