Abstract
We solve numerically the time-dependent equations of motion for an inhomogeneously broadened single-mode ring laser. As expected from the linear stability analysis, pulsations develop in the output of the laser for appropriate values of the gain parameter. Under resonant conditions, the tendency is for the system to slip from a periodic regime into irregular oscillations; out of resonance, however, periodic oscillations and period-doubling bifurcations are more typical over a large range of gain values. We find that, as the ratio of the population-to-polarization decay rates varies from a value of two (radiative limit) to smaller values, the periodic oscillations turn into a train of well-separated pulses whose peak intensity scales approximately as the square of the atomic density.
© 1985 Optical Society of America
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