Dressed-state lasers and masers
- 1 July 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 42 (1) , 686-688
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.42.686
Abstract
We show that laser and maser action is possible using atoms that have been prepared in dressed states. We develop the microscopic theory and derive the Fokker-Planck equation for the field distribution for such a laser (maser) system.Keywords
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