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Disordered Maxwell-Bloch Equations

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As done in the section concerning non resonant nonlinearities, we introduce spatial disorder to investigate the fascinating regime of interaction between light and matter when the two competing light localizing mechanisms (nonlinearity and disorder) are effective on the same spatial scale.

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Folli, V. (2012). Disordered Maxwell-Bloch Equations. In: Nonlinear Optics and Laser Emission through Random Media. Springer Theses. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4513-1_7

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