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Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 1421–1424 (1993)

Near dipole-dipole effects in lasing without inversion: An enhancement of gain and absorptionless index of refraction

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Jonathan P. Dowling and Charles M. Bowden
Weapons Sciences Directorate, AMSMI-RD-WS-ST, Research, Development, Engineering Center, U.S. Army Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama 35898-5248

Received 11 September 1992; published in the issue dated 8 March 1993

We include the effect of density-dependent near dipole-dipole interactions in order to generalize the theory of a simple three-level system that exhibits lasing without inversion and an enhanced index of refraction at zero absorption. For certain values of atomic density, our generalized theory predicts a novel enhancement of inversionless gain and absorptionless index by more than 2 orders of magnitude.

© 1993 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.1421
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.1421
PACS:
42.65.Pc, 42.50.Hz, 42.50.Md, 42.65.An