Lasers are often described in terms of a light field circulating in an optical resonator system. Now a laser has been demonstrated in which the field resides primarily in the atomic medium that is used to generate the light. See Letter p.78
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Vuletic, V. An almost lightless laser. Nature 484, 43–44 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/484043a
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