Mode dynamics in optical cavities
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 51 (1) , 641-645
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.51.641
Abstract
We consider the dynamical behavior of light in a cavity that contains birefringent elements with time-dependent settings. The evolution of the two-dimensional polarization vector can be described by an equation of the Schrödinger type if the intracavity elements change little on the time scale of the round-trip time. A coupled-mode analysis is given, which models the multimode dynamics of the optical system. We show that a description in terms of isolated two-level systems is justified if the optical band gap is small.Keywords
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