New unifying theory of lasers advanced by physicists

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The image shows an artists rendering of a random laser that is pumped with incoherent light from the top and emits coherent light in random directions. (Courtesy of Robert Tandy Science Magazine).
The image shows an artists rendering of a random laser that is pumped with incoherent light from the top and emits coherent light in random directions. (Courtesy of Robert Tandy & Science Magazine).

Researchers at Yale and the Institute of Quantum Electronics at ETH Zurich have formulated a theory that, allows scientists to better understand and predict the properties of both conventional and non-conventional lasers, according to a recent article in Science.


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