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The cooperative spontaneous emission of radiation, or superradiance [1], should be observable from initially fully inverted molecular systems which have high gain and are either 1) shorter than a cooperation length [2], or 2) inverted by means of swept excitation [3]. The emission from an extended cylindrical sample should occur as delayed pulses, the intensity, width and delay of which depend on the density ρ of excited molecules and on the length L and cross-sectional area A of the sample.
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Rosenberger, A.T., Petuchowski, S.J., DeTemple, T.A. (1978). Far-Infrared Superradiance in Methyl Fluoride. In: Mandel, L., Wolf, E. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics IV. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0665-9_62
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