Laser dynamics /

"Bridging the gap between laser physics and applied mathematics, this book offers a new perspective on laser dynamics. Combining fresh treatments of classic problems with up-to-date research, asymptotic techniques appropriate for nonlinear dynamical systems are shown to offer a powerful alterna...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Erneux, Thomas
Otros Autores: Glorieux, Pierre
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Temas:
Lasers > Mathematical models.
Dynamics.
Lasers > Modèles mathématiques.
Dynamique.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Lasers & Photonics.
Dynamics
Lasers > Mathematical models
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Content13;
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Part I Basic tools
  • 1 Rate equations
  • 1.1 Dimensionless equations
  • 1.2 Steady states and linear stability
  • 1.3 Turn-on transients
  • 1.4 Transfer function
  • 1.5 Dynamical system
  • 1.6 Spontaneous emission
  • 1.7 Semiconductor lasers
  • 1.8 Exercises and problems
  • 2 Three- and four-level lasers
  • 2.1 Energy level schemes in lasers
  • 2.2 Three-level lasers
  • 2.3 Four-level lasers
  • 2.4 Exercises and problems
  • 3 Phase dynamics
  • 3.1 Phase-locking in laser dynamics
  • 3.2 Vectorial laser in presence of Faraday driving
  • 3.3 Adler's equation
  • 3.4 Laser with an injected signal
  • 3.5 Counterpropagating waves in ring class A lasers
  • 3.6 Coupled lasers
  • 3.7 Exercises and problems
  • 4 Hopf bifurcation dynamics
  • 4.1 Electrical feedback
  • 4.2 Ikeda system
  • 4.3 From harmonic to pulsating oscillations
  • 4.4 Exercises
  • Part II Driven laser systems
  • 5 Weakly modulated lasers
  • 5.1 Driven Adler's equation
  • 5.2 Weakly modulated class B lasers
  • 5.3 Exercises and problems
  • 6 Strongly modulated lasers
  • 6.1 Generalized bistability
  • 6.2 Map for the strongly modulated laser
  • 6.3 Dual tone modulation near period-doubling bifurcation
  • 7 Slow passage
  • 7.1 Dynamical hysteresis
  • 7.2 Slow passage through a bifurcation point
  • 7.3 Period-doubling bifurcation
  • 7.4 Slowfast dynamics
  • 7.5 Exercise
  • Part III Particular laser systems
  • 8 Laser with a saturable absorber
  • 8.1 LSA parameters
  • 8.2 LSA basic phenomena
  • 8.3 Rate equations
  • 8.4 PQS in CO2 lasers
  • 8.5 Exercises and problems
  • 9 Optically injected semiconductor lasers
  • 9.1 Semiconductor lasers
  • 9.2 Injection-locking
  • 9.3 Adler's equation
  • 9.4 Experiments and numerical simulations
  • 9.5 Stability of the steady states
  • 9.6 Nonlinear studies
  • 9.7 A third order Adler's equation
  • 9.8 Exercises and problems
  • 10 Delayed feedback dynamics
  • 10.1 History
  • 10.2 Imaging using OFB
  • 10.3 Optoelectronic oscillator
  • 10.4 Exercises
  • 11 Far-infrared lasers
  • 11.1 Vibrational bottleneck
  • 11.2 Lorenz chaos in the FIR laser
  • 11.3 Dual gain line instability
  • 11.4 Exercises
  • 12 Optical parametric oscillator
  • 12.1 Parametric processes
  • 12.2 Semiclassical model for the DOPO
  • 12.3 Experiments on TROPO-DOPO
  • 12.4 TROPO-DOPO and temperature effects
  • 12.5 Intracavity singly resonant parametric oscillator
  • 12.6 Intracavity SHG
  • 12.7 Antiphase dynamics in intracavity SHG
  • 12.8 Frequencies
  • 12.9 Antiphase dynamics in a fiber laser
  • 12.10 Exercises
  • References
  • Index.

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