Semiclassical and quantum theories of bistability in lasers containing saturable absorbers

LA Lugiato, P Mandel, ST Dembinski, A Kossakowski - Physical Review A, 1978 - APS
We study the properties of the laser field in the case where the cavity contains two cells, one
which amplifies and one which absorbs the radiation. We adopt the simplest possible model …

Correlation functions of a dye laser: Comparison between theory and experiment

R Short, L Mandel, R Roy - Physical Review Letters, 1982 - APS
Experimentally determined intensity correlation functions of a single-mode dye laser are
compared with theoretically predicted forms given in a recent paper by Graham …

Investigation of photon statistics and correlations of a dye laser

K Kaminishi, R Roy, R Short, L Mandel - Physical Review A, 1981 - APS
The probability distribution p (n) for the detection of n photons emitted by a single-mode dye
laser in a short time at various excitations is measured, together with the distribution of time …

Photon statistics of a dye laser far below threshold

P Lett, R Short, L Mandel - Physical review letters, 1984 - APS
The relative mean square fluctuations<(Δ I) 2>< I> 2 of the intensity I of a single-mode dye
laser have been measured by a photon counting technique, in the region from about …

Stable localized solutions in nonlinear optics with large dissipation

HR Brand, RJ Deissler - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 1994 - Elsevier
We study the spatio-temporal behavior of the electric field inside a laser with saturable
absorber in the good cavity limit. We find that the underlying nonlinear partial differential …

Colored-noise-induced first-order phase transition in a single-mode dye laser

P Lett, EC Gage, TH Chyba - Physical Review A, 1987 - APS
We report the observation of a colored-noise-induced first-order nonequilibrium phase
transition in a single-mode dye laser. Although a second-order phase transition exists in the …

Photon distributions of lasers with first-order phase-transition analogies

R Roy - Physical Review A, 1979 - APS
The photon-number distributions for a laser with a saturable-absorber and a dye laser are
obtained by extensions of the Scully and Lamb optical-maser theory. The results are shown …

Observation of bistability in a CO2 laser exhibiting passive Q-switching

A Jacques, P Glorieux - Optics Communications, 1982 - Elsevier
Optical bistability has been investigated experimentally in a CO 2 laser containing CF 3 Br
as a saturable absorber. The frequency dependence of the hysteresis cycle of this laser …

On correlation functions of lasing systems exhibiting first order-like phase transition threshold behaviour

ST Dembiński, A Kossakowski, L Wolniewicz - Zeitschrift für Physik B …, 1977 - Springer
The correlation function of the intensity fluctuation and the correlation function of the field
amplitude in a dye laser and a laser with a saturable absorber are investigated by solving …

Observable manifestations of phase transitions in lasers

R Salomaa, S Stenholm - Applied physics, 1977 - Springer
The well-known analogy between the Landau theory of phase transitions and lasers is
discussed. It is shown that the AC-response of the output intensity to the modulation of the …