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Solution of a statistical mechanics model for pulse formation in lasers
2004
Physical Review E
We present a rigorous statistical-mechanics theory of nonlinear many mode laser systems. An important example is the passively mode-locked laser that promotes pulse operation when a saturable absorber is placed in the cavity. It was shown by Gordon and Fischer [1] that pulse formation is a first-order phase transition of spontaneous ordering of modes in an effective "thermodynamic" system, in which intracavity noise level is the effective temperature. In this paper we present a rigorous
doi:10.1103/physreve.70.046108
pmid:15600461
fatcat:5kizfkv2ybatvnqfgxbam6sf6u