Stability of a detuned single mode homogeneously broadened ring laser
Abstract
We study analytically the influence of detuning on the properties of a homogeneously broadened single mode ring laser. In the good cavity domain the stationary output is stable. In the bad cavity domain the stationary output becomes unstable via a Hopf bifurcation. Near line center this Hopf bifurcation is subcritical, leading to unstable small amplitude oscillations. Far from line center this Hopf bifurcation is supercritical and leads to stable small amplitude output.
- Publication:
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Optics Communications
- Pub Date:
- August 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0030-4018(83)90104-9
- Bibcode:
- 1983OptCo..47..146M
- Keywords:
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- Frequency Stability;
- Laser Modes;
- Laser Outputs;
- Laser Stability;
- Ring Lasers;
- Amplitude Distribution Analysis;
- Laser Cavities;
- Luminous Intensity;
- Periodic Variations;
- Spectral Line Width;
- Lasers and Masers