Pattern formation in the transverse section of a laser with a large Fresnel number

Hegarty, Stephen P.; Huyet, Guillaume; McInerney, John G.; Choquette, KD

Pattern formation in the transverse section of a laser with a large Fresnel number

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Date

1999

Authors

Hegarty, Stephen P.

Huyet, Guillaume

McInerney, John G.

Choquette, KD

Publisher

American Physical Society

Published Version

10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.1434

Abstract

We experimentally investigate pattern formation in a single-wavelength long laser cavity with a large Fresnel number. Near the laser threshold, we observe a single frequency spatially periodic structure corresponding to titled waves theoretically predicted by the Maxwell-Bloch equations. We also show the presence of secondary instabilities at other wavelengths and polarization instabilities at the same wavelength for different parameter values. (S0031-9007(99)08512-9).

Keywords

Spatiotemporal instabilities , Dynamics , Vortices , Chaos

Citation

Hegarty, S. P., Huyet, G., McInerney, J. G. and Choquette, K. D. (1999) 'Pattern formation in the transverse section of a laser with a large Fresnel number', Physical Review Letters, 82(7), 1434-1437 (4pp). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.1434