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Stability of polarized modes in gas lasers
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Stéphan, G. M. May, A. D. |
| Copyright Year | 1998 |
| Description | Journal: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics: Journal of the European Optical Society Part B This tutorial paper is based on lectures delivered by G M Stéphan at PELS'97. The idea was to tell the students about the methodology used by the authors to understand and to quantitatively compute the flips observed between two polarization states in a single-frequency He-Ne laser. The study is limited to this phenomenon. Contents are: introduction, quasi-isotropic lasers and polarization flips; the passive Fabry-Perot interferometer, an illustrative example; a vectorial description of a two energy-level system with magnetic degeneracy; two useful tools: adiabatic elimination of fast variables and use of Lyapunov exponents to study the stability of a solution; medium polarization in the adiabatic approximation; the laser equations for the field. These contents are organized for people coming into the field: rather than being too general, we have preferred to focus on limited and well defined examples from which other cases can be studied. |
| Related Links | http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1355-5111/10/1/008/pdf |
| Ending Page | 36 |
| Page Count | 18 |
| Starting Page | 19 |
| ISSN | 13555111 |
| e-ISSN | 13616625 |
| DOI | 10.1088/1355-5111/10/1/008 |
| Journal | Quantum and Semiclassical Optics: Journal of the European Optical Society Part B |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 10 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing |
| Publisher Date | 1998-02-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics: Journal of the European Optical Society Part B |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics Engineering |
