Evidence that transverse effects cause an instability in a single-modeCO2laser
- 1 May 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 35 (9) , 3978-3981
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.35.3978
Abstract
We show experimental evidence of spontaneous oscillations in a single-transverse and single-longitudinal mode laser under conditions for which the plane-wave Maxwell-Bloch model predicts stable laser operation. These instabilities seem to result from transverse structure in the mode, as a model which accounts for the transverse profile of the field in the cavity predicts behavior in close agreement with our experimental results.
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