Pulsating instabilities and chaos in lasers
Abstract
A detailed state of the art survey of deterministic chaos in laser systems is presented. The mechanism of single mode instability is discussed, including spontaneous and induced mode splitting and the threshold for laser instabilities. Single mode homogeneously broadened systems are addressed, including optically pumped far infrared lasers and near-resonantly pumped midinfrared systems. Single mode inhomogeneously broadened systems are considered, including the He-Xe laser and the He-Ne laser at 3.39 microns. Single mode lasers with external control parameter are discussed, as is the multimode laser.
- Publication:
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Progress in Quantum Electronics
- Pub Date:
- 1985
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0079-6727(85)90005-9
- Bibcode:
- 1985PQE....10..147H
- Keywords:
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- Chaos;
- Infrared Lasers;
- Laser Mode Locking;
- Laser Stability;
- Optical Pumping;
- Strange Attractors;
- Helium-Neon Lasers;
- Hydrodynamics;
- Lorentz Transformations;
- Maxwell Equation;
- Oscillographs;
- Xenon;
- Lasers and Masers