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Towards a random laser with cold atoms
William Guerin, Nicolas Mercadier, Franck Michaud +7
Atoms can scatter light and they can also amplify it by stimulated emission. From this simple starting point, we examine the possibility of realizing a random laser in a cloud of l…
Lévy flights of photons in hot atomic vapours
Nicolas Mercadier, William Guerin, Martine Chevrollier +1
Properties of random and fluctuating systems are often studied through the use of Gaussian distributions. However, in a number of situations, rare events have drastic consequences,…
Threshold of a random laser based on Raman gain in cold atoms
William Guerin, Nicolas Mercadier, Davide Brivio +1
We address the problem of achieving a random laser with a cloud of cold atoms, in which gain and scattering are provided by the same atoms. In this system, the elastic scattering c…