Title :
Some physical scenes (melting, freezing and localization) from a birthplace of light pulses (mode-locked lasers)
Author :
Fischer, Baruch ; Gordon, Ariel ; Vodonos, Boris
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
Pulse formation in mode-locked lasers is studied using a statistical mechanics approach for the many interacting modes in the cavity. The theoretical and experimental study provides many new features, such as phase transition of the first kind, with melting and freezing of the pulses and modes, as the noise ("temperature") is varied. We also discuss localization behavior of dispersive mode-locked lasers.
Keywords :
freezing; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser modes; melting; optical pulse generation; phase transformations; statistical mechanics; freezing; interacting modes; laser cavity; light pulses; localization; melting; mode-locked lasers; noise; phase transition; pulse formation; statistical mechanics approach; Dispersion; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Laser theory; Laser transitions; Layout; Optical pulses; Phase noise;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics Conference, 2003. EQEC '03. European
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7733-8
DOI :
10.1109/EQEC.2003.1313878
