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Time resolved pattern evolution in a large aperture laser

patt-sol 2009-10-31 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons Optics

Abstract

We have measured quasi-instantaneous transverse patterns in a broad aperture laser. Non-ordered patterns yielding to boundary determined regular structures in progressive time-integrated recording are observed. The linear analysis and numerical integration of the full Maxwell-Bloch equations allow us to interpret the features of the experiment. We show that this system being far from threshold cannot be fully understood with a perturbative model.

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@article{arxiv.patt-sol/9911007,
  title  = {Time resolved pattern evolution in a large aperture laser},
  author = {F. Encinas-Sanz and I. Leyva and J. M. Guerra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:patt-sol/9911007},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages, 5 GIF figures . To be published in Phys. Rev. Lett