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Optics Communications

Instabilities in inhomogeneously broadened single-mode lasers

Luigi A. Lugiato, Lorenzo M. Narducci, Donna Kay Bandy, N. B. Abraham

Published Jun 1, 1983• 32 citations
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10.1016/0030-4018(83)90389-9

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This paper gives a full account of the dynamical properties of single-mode inhomogeneously broadened lasers. The study divides itself into two parts. First, the integro-differential ``Maxwell-Bloch'' equations, which describe such systems, are numerically solved for a large scan of values of the various control parameters that govern the dynamical evolution of self-pulsing lasers. The instability hierarchies, delimited with respect to the excitation parameter, reveal that, along with the various decay rates of the interacting variables, the chosen number of velocity components, which divides the polarization integral into discrete intervals, also plays an important role in the dynamical evolution of the system, especially in the self-pulsing regime of operation. The second part of this paper concerns another approach to modeling single-mode inhomogeneously broadened laser dynamics that largely circumvents the infinite-dimensional complexity of the medium's polarization. A hierarchy of low-dimensional models, with increasing accuracy with respect to the infinite-dimensional ``Maxwell-Bloch'' equations, is constructed and adapted to describe correctly most of the properties of single-mode inhomogeneously broadened lasers.
The instabilities in homogeneously broadened lasers, which we described in the previous chapter, have a paradigmatic importance because they arise in models which allow one to perform the linear-stability analysis in a simple analytic form. The treatment of the corresponding instabilities in the case of in homogeneously broadened lasers is substantially more complex in general. However, it is very interesting because, as we shall see, the instabilities arise in parametric domains that are much more accessible from the experimental viewpoint. A related issue is that of the possibility of multimodal emission in a laser. It is common knowledge that in order to attain multimode emission it is necessary to have a sort of in homogeneity in the gain medium, because in a completely homogeneous configuration all modes interact with all atoms, and the arising competition among modes implies that only one of them survives. There are basically two main kinds of in homogeneity, the first is of spatial nature and the other is of spectral nature. The first kind is realized in Fabry–Perot lasers, because different cavity modes interact with atoms at different spatial positions in the cavity thanks to the standing-wave configuration of the field and to the consequent phenomenon of spatial hole- burning (see Section 14.2 and Fig. 14.1). This circumstance is capable of weakening the mode–mode competition and allowing multimode operation. In unidirectional ring lasers, on the other hand, there is an “inhomogeneous” configuration in the case of inhomogeneous broadening, because different groups of atoms have different transition frequencies and therefore interact with different modes thanks to the spectral hole-burning (see Section 15.2 and Fig. 15.3). Again, this weakens the mode–mode competition and allows multimode operation. However, these are qualitative considerations, and the only reliable and quantitative method to determine the possibility of multimodal operation is the linear-stability analysis of the single-mode stationary solutions.