Traveling intensity waves in an absorbing gyrotropic medium

A. N. Godlevskaya, V. N. Kapshaǐ

V.B. Mandel'tsveig, И.С. Шапиро

A. A. Afonin, A. N. Godlevskaya, V. N. Kapshaǐ +1 more

Vladimir Makarov, A. V. Matveeva

An analysis is made of the amplitude and polarization effects which accompany the propagation of laser radiation in a ring resonator filled with a nonlinear gyrotropic medium. The ranges of the parameters of the radiation, resonator, and medium are found for which there are periodic and chaotic changes in the intensity, degree of ellipticity, and angle of rotation of the polarization ellipse of the output radiation. Analytic expressions are obtained for the frequency of changes in the output characteristics.

Alvin Katz, R. R. Alfano

O G Lobanova, Vladimir Makarov, Elena B. Cherepetskaya

A theoretical derivation is given of the condition of stability of steady states of the field in a ring resonator with an isotropic nonlinear gyrotropic medium in the presence of an arbitrarily polarized perturbation of a given size. It is shown that it is possible to find the parameters of the polarization of light exciting the resonator which ensure the maximum number of stable steady states of the field in the required range of the intensities of the transmitted radiation.