Instabilities in a Simple Model of a Laser with a Fast Saturable Absorber
- 1 August 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Modern Optics
- Vol. 35 (8) , 1281-1296
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09500348814551441
Abstract
We study the effect of adding a fast saturable absorber to the single-mode Maxwell-Bloch equations which are otherwise isomorphic to the Lorenz equations. The modified system, which includes a nonlinear loss term in the field equation, exhibits both the Lorenz instability and the Q-switching instability within a single framework. We show that adding the saturable absorber lowers the threshold for the Lorenz instability, making it more accessible to experimental observation.Keywords
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