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Dependence of laser intensity on cavity losses for a detuned, single-mode laser
Applied Optics
|October 22, 2010
Abstract:
It is shown that for a detuned, single-mode, homogeneously broadened laser, semiclassical laser theory predicts a transition from a nonlasing state to a lasing state when cavity losses are increased for a range of cavity detunings when dispersion is large. A physical explanation for this behavior is presented in which the influence of dispersion on the cavity resonance frequencies is considered.

