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Frequency tristability of single-mode, standing-wave gas lasers containing a saturable absorber

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Abstract

The structure of the Lamb dip may permit a standing-wave gas laser containing a saturable absorber (LSA) to exhibit frequency tristability while oscillating in a single spatial mode. This is concluded from the steady-state and stability analyses of a plane-wave gas-laser model in which the atomic populations are taken as homogeneous. Conditions for this behavior are investigated, and it is concluded that very high pump excitations are needed, which is in contrast to previously reported predictions of frequency multistability for LSA’s containing homogeneously broadened media.

© 1988 Optical Society of America

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