Analysis of Instability and Chaos in Optically Pumped Three Level Lasers
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Summary
Chaotic behaviour in lasers may exist in even the simplest of systems; one in which population inversion is established between two discrete energy levels of the medium and where the lasing transition between these two levels is homogeneously broadened. A further simplification is that the laser cavity, a ring resonator system surrounding the gain medium, be sufficiently short so that only one resonant frequency of the cavity lies within the bandwidth of the gain medium and that this mode be resonantly tuned to the gain centre frequency.
Keywords
Hopf Bifurcation Chaotic Motion Stable Limit Cycle Gain Coefficient Laser Oscillator
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