Inversionless lasing with self-generated driving field Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We propose and study resonant ladder schemes of inversionless lasing on a fast-decaying transition when the population inversion is not possible or very difficult to achieve. The driving field on a neighboring, slowly decaying transition is not imposed externally, but is self generated in the same active medium. Inversionless lasing in such schemes avoids the problem of driving-field absorption and leads to considerable reduction in the required pumping rate. Applications of such schemes include inversionless ultraviolet and soft x-ray lasing in gas lasers and inversionless generation of coherent mid/far-infrared emission on intersubband (interlevel) transitions in multiple quantum-well or quantum-dot laser diodes. 2001 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW A

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Belyanin, A., Bentley, C., Capasso, F., Kocharovskaya, O., & Scully, M. O.

citation count

  • 25

complete list of authors

  • Belyanin, A||Bentley, C||Capasso, F||Kocharovskaya, O||Scully, MO

publication date

  • June 2001