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Random lasers

Towards mode-locking

Nature Photonics volume 5, pages 573–574 (2011)Cite this article

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Researchers have demonstrated that selectively exciting ensembles of laser modes using an innovative pumping scheme can tune the emission lines of a random laser from weakly interacting to strongly correlated, thus paving the way towards the realization of mode-locked random lasers.

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  1. Heinz Kalt is at the Institute of Applied Physics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany,

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Kalt, H. Towards mode-locking. Nature Photon 5, 573–574 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2011.220

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