Natural population inversion in a gaseous molecular filament

See Leang; Huailiang Xu; Ya Cheng; Zhizhan Xu; Kaoru Yamanouchi

doi:10.3788/col201311.013201

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 11, Issue 1, 013201(2013)

Natural population inversion in a gaseous molecular filament

See Leang, Huailiang Xu, Ya Cheng, Zhizhan Xu, and Kaoru Yamanouchi

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Category: Ultrafast Optics

Received: Sep. 14, 2012

Accepted: Nov. 16, 2012

Published Online: Jan. 15, 2013

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DOI:10.3788/col201311.013201

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