Instabilities in two-photon lasers

Daniel J. Gauthier; Hope M. Concannon

doi:10.1117/12.164764

1 December 1993 Instabilities in two-photon lasers

Daniel J. Gauthier, Hope M. Concannon

Proceedings Volume 2039, Chaos in Optics; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.164764
Event: SPIE's 1993 International Symposium on Optics, Imaging, and Instrumentation, 1993, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The two-photon laser represents an entirely new class of quantum optical oscillator that promises to display a wealth of new and exciting nonlinear behavior. For example, the prediction that the turn-on behavior of the laser is indicative of a first-order phase transition was verified in recent studies of the first continuous-wave two-photon laser. In addition, it was found experimentally that the field generated by the laser displayed dynamical instabilities under some conditions. We briefly review the properties of two-photon lasers that are pertinent to its dynamical characteristics and show that many of the interesting properties can be understood from a simple rate-equation model. Also, we describe our efforts at Duke to address the origin of instabilities in two-photon lasers.

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Daniel J. Gauthier and Hope M. Concannon "Instabilities in two-photon lasers", Proc. SPIE 2039, Chaos in Optics, (1 December 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.164764

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