Sources

I emailed Tom Bearden and he gave me some great research references, listed below. Also, look for any references to "lasing without population inversion".

Lawandy, Nabil M. (1995)
Optical Gain Medium Having Doped Nanocrystals of Semiconductors
and Also Optical Scatterers.
U.S. Patent No. 5,434,878. July 18, 1995.

Lawandy, Nabil M. (1993)
Optical Gain Medium Having Doped Nanocrystals of Semiconductors
and Also Optical Scatterers
U.S. Patent No. 5,233,621.Aug. 3, 1993.

Lawandy, Nabil M. (1993)
Optically Encoded Phase Matched Second harmonic Generation Device and
Self Frequency Doubling Laser Material
Using Semiconductor Microcrystallite Doped Glasses
U.S. Patent No. 5,253,258. Oct. 12, 1993.

Lawandy, Nabil M. (TBD)
Optical Sources Having a Strongly Scattering Gain Medium
Providing Laser-like Action
U.S. Patent application No. 08/210,710, filed Mar. 19, 1994.

Lawandy, Nabil M.; R.M. Balachandran, A.S.L. Gomes and E. Sauvain. (1994)
Laser action in strongly scattering media
Nature, Letters, 368(6470), Mar. 31, 1994, p. 436-438.

Letokhov, V.S. (1995)
Laser Maxwell's demon
Contemporary Physics, 36(4), 1995, p. 235-243.

Offered by Steve.