1 January 1985, Volume 2, Issue 1, pp. 1-264  
34 articles

Preface

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 5-5 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Overview of instabilities in laser systems

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 7-14 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Effects of Gaussian-beam averaging on laser instabilities

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 15-17 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of detuning on the properties of laser equations

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 18-22 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Observation of undamped pulsations in a low-pressure, far-infrared laser and comparison with a simple theoretical model

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 23-34 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Steady-state and unstable behavior of a single-mode inhomogeneously broadened laser

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 35-46 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Low-dimensional chaotic attractors for an unstable, inhomogeneously broadened, single-mode laser

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 47-55 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Time-dependent behavior of a unidirectional ring laser within homogeneous broadening

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 56-61 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Spontaneous coherent pulsations in ring-laser oscillators

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 62-72 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Spontaneous coherent pulsations in ring-laser oscillators: simplified models

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 73-80 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser isolas

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 81-83 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Theory of single-mode laser instabilities

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 84-101 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Spontaneous pulsing, period doubling, and quasi-periodicity in a unidirectional, single-mode, inhomogeneously broadened ring laser

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 102-107 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Instabilities in laser-pumped gas lasers: experimental oscillation line shapes

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 108-111 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Properties of a Lorentz-broadened single-mode unidirectional ring laser

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 112-119 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Mode splitting and the coherent instability in high-gain lasers

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 120-129 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Modeling laser instabilities and chaos

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 130-136 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Observation of instabilities and chaos in optically pumped far-infrared lasers

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 137-140 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Self-pulsing instability in inhomogeneously broadened traveling-wave lasers

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 141-147 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Coexisting attractors in a laser with an injected signal

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 148-155 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Observation of order and chaos in a nuclear spin–flip laser

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 156-167 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Instabilities in a resonant-type laser amplifier with injected signals

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 168-172 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Instabilities in lasers with an injected signal

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 173-183 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Bistability, regular self-pulsing, and chaos in lasers with external feedback

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 184-192 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Pulse shape and phase diagram in the passive Q switching of CO2 lasers

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 193-201 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Regular and chaotic behavior of multimode lasers

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 202-210 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Dynamics of homogeneously broadened lasers: higher-order bichromatic states of operation

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 211-217 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-longitudinal-mode laser as a discrete dynamical system

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 218-225 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Instabilities in a solid-state ring laser

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 226-231 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Instabilities leading to self-pulsing, hysteresis, and chaos in a multimode laser

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 232-236 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Spatial and temporal instabilities in multistripe semiconductor lasers

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 237-249 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Classical and quantum treatment of amplifier and superradiant free-electron laser dynamics

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 250-258 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Generation of high-intensity coherent radiation in the soft-x-ray and vacuum-ultraviolet region

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 259-264 (1985)  View: HTML | PDF

Announcements

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(1), 265-265 (1985)  View: PDF