Self-induced Faraday instability laser
Pattern Formation and Solitons
2018-05-30 v1
Abstract
We predict the onset of self-induced parametric or Faraday instabilities in a laser, spontaneously induced by the presence of pump depletion in the cavity, which leads to a periodic gain landscape for light propagating in the cavity. As a result of the instability, continuous wave oscillation becomes unstable even in the normal dispersion regime of the cavity, and a periodic train of pulses with ultrahigh repetition rate is generated. Application to the case of Raman fiber lasers is described, in good quantitative agreement between our conceptual analysis and numerical modeling.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1712.06625,
title = {Self-induced Faraday instability laser},
author = {A. M. Perego and S. V. Smirnov and K. Staliunas and D. V. Churkin and S. Wabnitz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.06625},
year = {2018}
}