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Title: Semiclassical theory of injected lasers with arbitrary stable and unstable resonators. Doctoral thesis

Abstract

A semiclassical analysis of injected lasers with stable and unstable resonators and arbitrary outcoupling fractions was performed. Homogeneously broadened lasers with Fabry-Perot and with positive branch, confocal unstable resonators were modeled. Both time-dependent and steady-state analyses of free-running and injected lasers were performed. Because of deficiencies in the standing-wave semiclassical and the simple saturable gain models, a new semiclassical theory of homogeneously broadened lasers were developed. The theory is predicted upon the following assumptions: the atoms are two-level, a single longitudinal mode exists in the cavity, the transverse mode structure can be adequately modeled by the geometric optics mode, and the laser electric fields can be described by a pair of counterpropagating planar, cylindrical, or spherical traveling waves with different amplitudes. A general semiclassical theory was first developed, and then specialized to the Fabry-Perot and positive branch, confocal unstable resonator cases. Both the Maxwell-Bloch and rate-equation approximation forms of the theory were derived. The general theory is sufficiently broad to allow the modeling of the geometric optics mode of any standing-wave resonator configuration. The theory was shown to reduce to the simple saturable gain and standing-wave semiclassical models in the appropriate limits. The analysis of the injected lasers was performedmore » with the new semiclassical theory. Both time-dependent and steady-state analyses were performed.« less

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Air Force Inst. of Tech., Wright-Patterson AFB, OH (USA). School of Engineering
OSTI Identifier:
5304684
Report Number(s):
AD-A-189514/3/XAB; AFIT/DS/PH-76-3
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Thesis
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING; LASERS; RESONATORS; SATURATION; STABILITY; STABILIZATION; STANDING WAVES; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT; 420300* - Engineering- Lasers- (-1989)

Citation Formats

Rinaldi, S M. Semiclassical theory of injected lasers with arbitrary stable and unstable resonators. Doctoral thesis. United States: N. p., 1987. Web.
Rinaldi, S M. Semiclassical theory of injected lasers with arbitrary stable and unstable resonators. Doctoral thesis. United States.
Rinaldi, S M. 1987. "Semiclassical theory of injected lasers with arbitrary stable and unstable resonators. Doctoral thesis". United States.
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