Abstract

The adiabatic elimination principle or, more generally, the slaving principle play a crucial role in the general strategy of dealing with multicomponent systems. In physics as well as in other branches of science, as chemistry or biology, we have to deal with systems composed of many subsystems. The laser is a typical example. It consists of a great many laser active atoms and the in general quite numerous field modes within the cavity.

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