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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Cascade laser dynamics

Ramon A. Vilaseca, Germán J. de Valcárcel, V. Espinosa, Eugenio Roldán

Published Dec 1, 1993• 1 citation
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Abstract

The behavior of a cascade laser in which two fields are simultaneously amplified is theoretically investigated. Each field is coupled with one of the transitions of a ladder three- level atomic or molecular system in conditions of homogeneous broadening. Steady-state as well as dynamic solutions are considered. Cooperative emission of both fields is found in steady state regime. Single-field solutions can loose stability through two different types of Hopf bifurcations. One of them can appear below the Lorenz-Haken second laser threshold, and the `bad cavity' condition is not necessarily required. In the unstable regimes transitions to chaos via the quasiperiodicity road are found. The influence of cavity detuning and the passage from cascade to two-photon laser are considered.

DOI
10.1117/12.164765

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