The linewidth of super and sub-luminal lasers

Jacob Scheuer; Selim Shahriar

doi:10.1117/12.2086779

10 March 2015 The linewidth of super and sub-luminal lasers

Jacob Scheuer, Selim Shahriar

Proceedings Volume 9378, Slow Light, Fast Light, and Opto-Atomic Precision Metrology VIII; 93780O (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2086779
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We study theoretically the lasing properties and the cavity lifetime of super and sub-luminal lasers. We find that obtaining the necessary conditions for superluminal lasing is rather difficult and that laser operating under these conditions are unstable and tend to bi-frequency lasing. We study the relaxation time of power perturbation in super and sub-luminal lasers using a finite-difference-time-domain-tool and present the impact between the lasing power, the group velocity and the dispersion properties of the cavity on the relaxation dynamic of such perturbations.

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Jacob Scheuer and Selim Shahriar "The linewidth of super and sub-luminal lasers", Proc. SPIE 9378, Slow Light, Fast Light, and Opto-Atomic Precision Metrology VIII, 93780O (10 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2086779

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