Abstract
We show that, in lasers characterized by a slow population dynamics, the expansion of the electric field on longitudinal modes is useful even beyond the uniform-field limit. The dynamical behavior of the laser above the second threshold can be well reproduced by a set of ordinary differential equations, whose integration is much faster than that of the complete Maxwell–Bloch equations. The conditions for the uniform-field limit are also clarified.
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