Physical Review A
First-order-like transition for colored-noise saturation models of dye lasers
Ling Lin, Cao Li, Wu Da-Jin
Abstract
A unified colored-noise approximation is applied to calculate the stationary intensity probabilities of colored-gain-noise and colored-loss-noise models for dye lasers with saturation effects. We compare the results of the unified colored-noise approximation with the predictions of the best Fokker-Planck equation for the stationary intensity probability of a colored-gain-noise model, and find that the results of the unified colored-noise approximation agree better with simulation results than the results of the best Fokker-Planck equation. The first-order-like transition of colored-gain-noise and colored-loss-noise models with saturation effects is discussed and compared. It is found that the emergence of the first-order-like transition is related to the saturation element in the fluctuation term of the dye-laser model for white pump noise, and the occurrence of the first-order-like transition is only due to the existence of colored pump noise in the loss-noise models for dye lasers with saturation effects.