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Vienna University of Technology

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When adding loss to one of the lasers by an absorbing object like the scatterer on the right, the coupled system begins to lase and emits a coherent beam of light (see red line).

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J. Zhu, B. Peng, S.K. Ozdemir, L. Yang

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