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Spontaneous transverse patterns in a microchip laser with a frequency-degenerate resonator
1Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. yfchen@cc.nctu.edu.tw
Optics Letters
|September 30, 2003
Abstract:
We experimentally observe the formation of high-order transverse patterns in a microchip laser with a high degree of frequency degeneracy. With a doughnut pump profile the spontaneous transverse patterns are well localized in the Lissajous trajectories. The observed transverse patterns are reconstructed with a high degree of accuracy by use of the coherent state of quantum theory. The accurate reconstruction suggests that laser resonators can be designed to obtain a more thorough understanding of the quantum-classical connection.