Suppression of order-disorder transition in class B lasers due to inhomogeneously broadened gain with fast cross-relaxation rate
Abstract
Time resolved measurements of the transverse intensity pattern evolution in an inhomogeneously broadened Nd:glass laser are reported. The use of the same laser system as in previous measurements with a Nd:YAG laser allows one to infer the influence of the inhomogeneous gain and the fast cross-relaxation rate in the evolution of the pattern. We have found the suppression of the dynamical transition to disordered spatial profiles shown in the Nd:YAG laser.
- Publication:
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Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- April 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1088/1464-4258/11/4/045204
- Bibcode:
- 2009JOptA..11d5204C