• DocumentCode
    1309898
  • Title

    Threshold and large amplitude self-oscillations in a saturable Rayleigh-gain ring cavity

  • Author

    Le Berre, Martine ; Ressayre, Elisabeth ; Tallet, Andree

  • Author_Institution
    Lab. de Photophys. Moleculaire, Univ. de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
  • Volume
    26
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1990
  • fDate
    3/1/1990 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    589
  • Lastpage
    596
  • Abstract
    Periodic instabilities which occur in the output beam of a ring cavity containing a short cell of passive homogeneously broadened two-level atoms are studied as a function of the atomic detuning and the mode spacing in a high-finesse cavity. The output characteristics are found to be very sensitive to the round-trip time of the light through the cavity and to the refractive index. Conditions for the occurrence of large-amplitude self-oscillation are given in terms of these two parameters
  • Keywords
    cavity resonators; optical bistability; optical saturation; atomic detuning; high-finesse cavity; large amplitude self-oscillations; mode spacing; output beam; output characteristics; passive homogeneously broadened two-level atoms; periodic instabilities; refractive index; round-trip time; saturable Rayleigh-gain ring cavity; short cell; threshold; Atomic beams; Bifurcation; Chaos; Delay; Frequency; Laser excitation; Optical feedback; Probes; Stability analysis; Steady-state;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/3.52137
  • Filename
    52137