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Control of laser radiation parameters

Influence of the Talbot cavity selectivity on the evolution of collective operation of diffraction-coupled laser arrays

V. P. Kandidov, A. V. Kondratyev

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics

Abstract: A dynamic model is proposed for collective operation of an array of diffraction-coupled waveguide lasers in an external cavity. The selective properties of a Talbot cavity predicted by this model match experimental results. A study is made of the transient process of evolution of collective lasing in one-dimensional and two-dimensional arrays. A statistical sampling method is used to show that the probability of establishing phase-locked operation as a result of this transient process is close to unity when the gain is low, but the probability falls on increase in the gain.

PACS: 42.60.Da, 42.60.Lh

Received: 21.04.1998

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 1998, 28:11, 972–976

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