Transient statistics in aCO2laser with a slowly swept pump
- 1 July 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 42 (1), 482-486
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.42.482
Abstract
The near-threshold behavior of a single-mode laser has been investigated by applying a linear modulation to the excitation current. The associated delayed bifurcation has been characterized in terms of first-passage-time distributions for different sweep rates. A theoretical model provides good agreement with the experimental data. In particular, we are able to assign the initial photon number below threshold.
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