Laser Ginzburg-Landau equation and laser hydrodynamics
- 1 August 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 48 (2) , 1573-1581
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.48.1573
Abstract
A laser Ginzburg-Landau equation with fourth- and higher-order diffusion terms is derived from the Maxwell-Bloch equations describing a laser. It is shown that the higher-order diffusion terms in the laser Ginzburg-Landau equation are crucial for the transverse structure formation. Laser-hydrodynamical equations are derived, and the correspondence between laser light dynamics and the dynamics of a compressible, viscous, quantized fluid is demonstrated.Keywords
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