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Physical Review A

Dye-laser equation with saturation and its best Fokker-Planck equation

Enrique Peacock-López, F. Javier de la Rubia, Bruce J. West, Katja Lindenberg

Published Apr 1, 1989• 27 citations

Abstract

We carry out numerical simulations of the evolution and steady-state properties of a dye laser operating near resonance. The model we use is fully two dimensional (i.e., it includes the intensity and the phase of the radiation) and does not involve the usual low-intensity expansions commonly used in the literature. The equation for the complex electric field is driven by white additive noise (quantum fluctuations due to spontaneous emission) and by colored multiplicative noise (fluctuations of the gain parameter). We note that the simulations agree with the experimental results of Zhu, Yu, and Roy [Phys. Rev. A 34, 4333 (1986)] for parameter values used in their experiments. We compare the simulation results with predictions of the ``best Fokker-Planck equation'' (BFPE) for the steady-state distribution of the laser intensity and find remarkable quantitative agreement for large ranges of parameters values, even for values that are in principle beyond the range of validity of this equation. We conclude that the BFPE can be safely invoked to make predictions for this system.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.39.4026

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