Abstract
The theory of stationary generation of a laser with a nonlinear Bragg (NBR) reflector as one of the cavity mirrors is developed. The analytical expressions determining the laser longitudinal-modes spectrum and the corresponding values of the lasing threshold are derived. It is shown that the output laser radiation can exhibit the multistable dependence on the pump rate value due to the fact that the behavior of the NBR reflection coefficient is also multistable versus the input radiation intensity.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1740-1745 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 1996 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Manuscnpt received November 7, 1995; revised June 7, 1996. This work was supported by the International Soros Educational Program and by the Foundation of Fundamental Investigation of the Republic of Belarus (Grant F95-318). The authors are with Institute of Physics of the Academy of Science of Belarus, Minsk 220072, Belarus. Publisher Item Identifier S 0018-9197(96)07278-8 Fig. 1. The scheme of the NBR laser: 1) active medium, 2) NBR, and 3) output cavity mirror.