Bistable Limit Cycles in a Model for a Laser with a Saturable Absorber
- 5 July 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 49 (1) , 35-38
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.49.35
Abstract
Sufficiently long population decay times and sufficiently short dipole decay times in a single-mode model for a laser with saturable absorber permit coexistence of soft-excited oscillations and switching (hard-mode sustained relaxation oscillations).
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