Glossary
- Laser dynamics:
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Time evolution of the laser light within the cavity as well as the time evolution of the charge-carriers that participate in the radiative emission process.
- Constant wave emission (cw):
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Laser emission with a constant intensity.
- Relaxation oscillations (RO):
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If a laser is perturbed from its steady state (constant wave emission), it will relax back performing a pure exponential decay (Class-A laser) or by performing damped oscillations (Class-B laser); damping rate and oscillation frequency are used to quantify the dynamics.
- Class-C laser:
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A laser, for which the timescale of the induced material polarization inside the gain material is on the same order of magnitude as the electron and the photon lifetime. These lasers have to be modeled with Maxwell-Bloch equations in contrast to Class A and Class B lasers where laser rate-equations are sufficient for the modeling.
- Bifurcation:
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qualitative change in the system’s behavior under parameter changes.
- 1D bifurcation...
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Lüdge, K., Lingnau, B. (2020). Laser Dynamics and Delayed Feedback. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27737-5_729-1
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