Formation and annihilation of laser light pulse quanta in a thermodynamic-like pathway

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 15, 2004, Pages

  Vodonos, Boris ^a   Weill, Rafi ^a   Gordon, Ariel ^a   Bekker, Alexander ^a   Smulakovsky, Vladimir ^a   Gat, Omri ^a   Fischer, Baruch ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FREE ENERGY; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PUMPING (LASER); STATISTICAL MECHANICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

GIBBS DISTRIBUTION; LASER PULSE ANNIHILATION; LASER PULSE ENERGY; PASSIVELY MODE LOCKED (PML) LASERS;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 19644400916     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.153901     Document Type: Article

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25. See EPAPS Document No. E-PRLTAO-93-010439 for a motion picture of the experimental results shown in Fig. 3 including pulse formation and annihilation. Typical pulse width is 500 fs, and the pulse bunch length is about 1/300 of the cavity length. A direct link to this document may be found in the online article's HTML reference section. The document may also be reached via the EPAPS homepage (http://www.aip.org/pubservs/epaps.html) or from ftp.aip.org in the directory /epaps/. See the EPAPS homepage for more information.