H. Gibbs, K. Tai, J. Moloney, F. Hopf, M. Leberre, E. Ressayre, A. Tallet
{"title":"Instabilities of a Passive All-Optical System Subjected to cw Laser Light","authors":"H. Gibbs, K. Tai, J. Moloney, F. Hopf, M. Leberre, E. Ressayre, A. Tallet","doi":"10.1364/idlnos.1985.tuc2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/idlnos.1985.tuc2","url":null,"abstract":"A transverse optical bistability is defined here as a bistability that would not occur with a plane-wave input; it is characterized by pronounced changes in transverse profiles, but not in total transmission.1-5 In order to use transverse bistabilities to study instabilities of the type first studied by Ikeda6 for a ring cavity, one needs a medium response time τM less than the round-trip time tR between the medium and the feedback mirror. Here instabilities are studied experimentally using a short length of sodium vapor and a far-field mirror (Fig. 1).7,8 This system has advantages over previous9,10 all-optical passive systems for studying instabilities: its input is cw, permitting the study of slowly evolving waveforms; it has little sensitivity to laser frequency shifts, because it has no cavity; its optical nonlinearity arises from a vapor of one-electron atoms, giving hope for a detailed quantitative comparison of experiments and calculations.","PeriodicalId":262701,"journal":{"name":"International Meeting on Instabilities and Dynamics of Lasers and Nonlinear Optical Systems","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116145613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frustrated optical instability: Self-induced spatial instability of polarization in nonlinear optical media","authors":"K. Otsuka, J. Yumoto","doi":"10.1364/idlnos.1985.wd1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/idlnos.1985.wd1","url":null,"abstract":"Maker et al. predicted and demonstrated experimentally that the axes of vibrational ellipse for elliptically polarized light rotate as a function of distance in isotropic Kerr-like media.1 Nonlinear eigenpolarization has been predicted recently by Kaplan for interfering beams (degenerate collinear four wave mixing geometry) in isotropic Kerr-like media. 2 In this paper, we extend their analyses to anisotropic crystals and provide a new aspect to the nonlinear theory of wave propagation, that is, the deterministic spatial instability of polarization of interfering beams.","PeriodicalId":262701,"journal":{"name":"International Meeting on Instabilities and Dynamics of Lasers and Nonlinear Optical Systems","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133918841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Universal Scalings for Transitions to Chaos","authors":"P. Cvitanovic","doi":"10.1364/idlnos.1985.wb3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/idlnos.1985.wb3","url":null,"abstract":"Period doublings and mode lockings for circle maps are characterized by universal scalings which can be measured in a variety of nonlinear physical systems.","PeriodicalId":262701,"journal":{"name":"International Meeting on Instabilities and Dynamics of Lasers and Nonlinear Optical Systems","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121066285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subharmonic Bifurcations and Irregular Pulsing Behavior of Modulated Diode Lasers","authors":"Y. Chen, H. Winful, J.M. Liu","doi":"10.1364/idlnos.1985.wd8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/idlnos.1985.wd8","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of existence of lasing regimes characterized by an irregular response of a semiconductor laser to a periodic modulation of the injection current has been of considerable interest recently. Based on coupled nonlinear rate equations for carrier and photon densities, Lee et al (1) predicted a period doubling route to chaos in a directly modulated semiconductor laser as the modulation index increases. Kawaguchi(2) showed a similar route to chaos in the optical response of a directly modulated, self-pulsating semiconductor laser with a saturable absorber. While chaotic behavior has been experimentally observed in other lasers with modulated parameters3,4, chaos in a modulated diode laser still remains to be demonstrated. In this paper we report the observation of a subharmonic bifurcation and erratic behavior in the output of diode lasers subjected to deep modulation of the injection current. The experimentally measured bifurcation sequences differ considerably from the predicted scenarios. Non-deterministic quantum noise sources are believed to play an important role in the observed phenomena.","PeriodicalId":262701,"journal":{"name":"International Meeting on Instabilities and Dynamics of Lasers and Nonlinear Optical Systems","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121173419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Lugiato, D. K. Bandy, L. Narducci, J. Tredicce, H. Sadiky, N. Abraham
{"title":"Mode-Mode Competition in a Homogeneously Broadened Ring Laser","authors":"L. Lugiato, D. K. Bandy, L. Narducci, J. Tredicce, H. Sadiky, N. Abraham","doi":"10.1007/978-3-642-46580-2_78","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46580-2_78","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":262701,"journal":{"name":"International Meeting on Instabilities and Dynamics of Lasers and Nonlinear Optical Systems","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124121843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantum Beat Superfluorescence","authors":"J. Haus, R. Glauber, W. Woger, H. King","doi":"10.1364/idlnos.1985.wd24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/idlnos.1985.wd24","url":null,"abstract":"That superfluorescence remains a fundamental cooperative phenomenon in quantum optics is attested to by the wealth of research publications and review articles on the subject1. Beyond the subfield of quantum optics, it is an important example of the decay of an unstable equilibrium state. Quantum fluctuations are necessary to trigger the decay of the atoms to the ground state; however, once begun the unstable nature of the process amplifies the tiny quantum fluctuations to macroscopic levels. Thus, superfluorescence gives us an insight into the nature of quantum stochastic processes.","PeriodicalId":262701,"journal":{"name":"International Meeting on Instabilities and Dynamics of Lasers and Nonlinear Optical Systems","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124291277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Solitons in Four-Wave Mixing","authors":"J. Ackerhalt","doi":"10.1364/idlnos.1985.fc5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/idlnos.1985.fc5","url":null,"abstract":"We have extended the work of Kai Druhl, Bob Wenzel and John Carlsten1 on solitons in stimulated Raman scattering to include four-wave mixing phenomena. We have studied coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) and second Stokes generation (SSG). We have found that CARS exhibits a soliton-like structure, whereas SSG exhibits a real soliton. Analytic solitons have been used to verify our interpretation of the numerical results.","PeriodicalId":262701,"journal":{"name":"International Meeting on Instabilities and Dynamics of Lasers and Nonlinear Optical Systems","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125398584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Soliton Structures in the Excitation due to Induced Absorption","authors":"H. Haug, S. Koch, H. E. Schmidt, M. Lindberg","doi":"10.1364/idlnos.1985.fc6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/idlnos.1985.fc6","url":null,"abstract":"It will be shown that in a nonlinear optical medium whoes absorption coefficient increases with the excitation density (e.g., free-carrier concentration in a semiconductor or temperature) , a soliton structure in the excitation density can occur, which in the stationary case is approximately the solution of a Sine-Gordon equation. For changing light intensity the soliton wall between the highly excited front part of the crystal and the weakly excited end part can move only in discrete jumps due to the intrinsic bistability. Experimental observations of these predictions have been obtained recently by Gibbs et al..","PeriodicalId":262701,"journal":{"name":"International Meeting on Instabilities and Dynamics of Lasers and Nonlinear Optical Systems","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121709886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coupled Return Maps and the Problem of Two Coupled Unidirectional Single Mode Homogeneously Broadened Lasers","authors":"N. Lawandy, D. Plant","doi":"10.1364/idlnos.1985.wd12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/idlnos.1985.wd12","url":null,"abstract":"The equivalence of the mean field model for a resonantly tuned single mode homogeneously broadened ring laser and the Lorenz equations was shown by Haken in 1975[1]. Unfortunately, the conditions for observing chaotic emission require the bad cavity limit in conjunction with a large gain. Recently it was suggested by Weiss that far infrared lasers, owing to their narrow linewidths and large gains, could serve as the experimental work horse for the observation and study of optical chaos in the Lorenz system[2]. These lasers however exhibit complicated intensity dependent gain structure and therefore may introduce strong intensity dependent sidebands and inhomogeneous broadening effects[2],[3]. A key to the problem lies in the ability to drop the threshold for chaos in order that lower pump powers could result in the necessary gain for the transition to chaotic output.","PeriodicalId":262701,"journal":{"name":"International Meeting on Instabilities and Dynamics of Lasers and Nonlinear Optical Systems","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124756341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Generation of Squeezed States by Four-Wave-Mixing in a Cavity","authors":"R. Slusher, B. Yurke, L. Hollberg, J. Mertz","doi":"10.1364/idlnos.1985.wd20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/idlnos.1985.wd20","url":null,"abstract":"Phase dependent nonlinear optical processes can make large fractional changes in the phase and amplitude of an optical field. An example is the prediction(1) that four-wave-mixing can generate squeezed states of an optical field where the variance in the two quadratures of the field are unequal. In order to observe squeezed states and utilize them in interferometric measurements this inequality in variances must be large (e.g. ≳ 50%). The large phase shifts required to achieve this regime of squeezing can be obtained near the threshold for oscillation of four-wave-mixing in an optical cavity. (2) This paper describes an experimental study(3) of four-wave-mixing in a cavity near threshold using the nonlinear index of the Na atomic resonance.","PeriodicalId":262701,"journal":{"name":"International Meeting on Instabilities and Dynamics of Lasers and Nonlinear Optical Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130109402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}