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The Field Patterns of a Hybrid Mode Laser: Detecting the “Hidden” Bistability of the Optical Phase Pattern

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Measures of Complexity and Chaos

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It is well known that the output field of lasers oscillating in a superposition of higher-order transverse modes of the optical resonator typically is characterized by a complex spatiotemporal structure /1/. The “cooperative frequency locking” /2/ of near-degenerate transverse resonator modes is accompanied by the formation of stationary transverse patterns of the optical field.

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  1. Labor 4.42, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Braunschweig, D-3300, Braunschweig, Germany

    Christian Tamm

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  1. Department of Physics, Bryn Mawr College, 19010-2899, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA

    Neal B. Abraham  & Alfonso M. Albano  & 

  2. Naval Air Development Center, 18974, Warminster, Pennsylvania, USA

    Anthony Passamante

  3. Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, The Medical College of Pennsylvania, 3300 Henry Ave., 19129, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Paul E. Rapp

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Tamm, C. (1989). The Field Patterns of a Hybrid Mode Laser: Detecting the “Hidden” Bistability of the Optical Phase Pattern. In: Abraham, N.B., Albano, A.M., Passamante, A., Rapp, P.E. (eds) Measures of Complexity and Chaos. NATO ASI Series, vol 208. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0623-9_64

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