Exact cavity equations for lasers with large output coupling

15 March 1980

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters

Vol. 36 (6) , 412-414
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.91520

Abstract

The author shows how to write an exact cavity‐mode expansion and obtains formally simple yet exact equations of motion for real laser cavities with large output coupling and/or diffraction losses, using the actual transverse eigenmodes of the cavity as a basis set, and including fast transient variations, externally injected signals, and spontaneous emission noise.

Keywords

LASER CAVITIES
EQUATIONS
COUPLING
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
OSCILLATION MODES
DIFFRACTION
LOSSES
EIGENSTATES
TRANSIENTS
NOISE
FLUCTUATIONS

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