Classic-fractal eigenmodes of unstable canonical resonators

Optics Communications

Volumn 223, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 17-23

  Watterson, Calum M G ^a   Padgett, Miles J ^a   Courtial, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fractal laser modes; Unstable resonators

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FRACTALS; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

CANONICAL RESONATORS;

RESONATORS;

EID: 0038035031     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(03)01620-1     Document Type: Article

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20. As with all 'physical' fractals, the size of the smallest-scale structure is limited, in this case by the size of the screen's pixels.
21. The power loss during each round trip can be approximated as a multiplication of the amplitudes by a factor of 1/|M| [18].
22. Note that the classic-fractal eigenmodes calculated in [19] do not occur in canonical resonators, but were instead designed into non-canonical ring resonators.