Summary: Nonnormal Modes
and
Quantum Noise
Anthony E. Siegman
McMurtry Professor of Engineering Emeritus
Stanford University
TAMU/DARPA/ONR Workshop on Quantum Optics
Grand Targhee, Wyoming
July 2003
Idealized stable-cavity laser
Assumed to have a lossless optical cavity, finite output coupling,
an ideal laser medium, and orthogonal laser cavity modes:
Ideal
laser gain
medium
Gaussian
transverse
mode profile
Lossless
output

Source: Allen, Roland E. - Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University

Collections: Physics