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One- and two-photon lasers with injected signal in a high-Q fabry-Pérot cavity

Eugenio RoldánVíctor EspinosaG. J. De Valcárcel

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Hopf bifurcationPhysicsPhysics::Instrumentation and Detectorsbusiness.industryAstrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for AstrophysicsPhysics::OpticsLaserRing (chemistry)SignalAtomic and Molecular Physics and Opticslaw.inventionLongitudinal modesymbols.namesakeOpticslawOptical cavityDomain (ring theory)symbolsPhysics::Accelerator PhysicsAtomic physicsbusinessFabry–Pérot interferometer

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Explicit models are derived for good cavity one- and two-photon lasers with an injected signal in a Fabry-Perot cavity. The steady solutions and their stability properties are obtained analytically and compared with the corresponding ring cavity model ones. Only quantitative differences between both types of cavities are found. In particular we show that (i) the Fabry-Perot cavity reduces significantly the domain of self-pulsing with respect to the ring cavity, and for the two-photon laser case (ii) larger output can be extracted from a Fabry-Perot cavity than from a ring cavity under certain conditions, something impossible in free-running lasers. We conclude that ring cavity models are sensible models for describing qualitatively Fabry-Perot experimental configurations.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2000-07-01Journal of Modern Optics
https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340008235108