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Problems of excess noise and adequate laser models

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We discuss the problem of excess noise in lasers of different dynamical classes, as well as adequate models for the description of such noise. It is shown that the excess noise in lasers is caused by mode-mode coupling. The linear coupling leads to the phenomenon of excess noise in the narrow sense (Petermann’s excess noise), while the nonlinear mode coupling is the universal mechanism for excess noise of dynamical nature. It is shown that the theory of excess noise in class-B lasers does not require new approaches and can be developed on the basis of models with adiabatically eliminated polarization obtained in a standard way.

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Prepared for publication by I. V. Koryukin and P. A. Khandokhin (khando@appl.sci-nnov.ru).

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 47, Nos. 10–11, pp. 799–806, October–November, 2004.

The author acknowledges support of this work by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, and the Council on the Grants of the President of the Russian Federation for Support of Leading Scientific Schools.

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Khanin, Y.I. Problems of excess noise and adequate laser models. Radiophys Quantum Electron 47, 715–722 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-005-0009-6

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