Lateral field instability and six-wave mixing in a diode laser with broad active area |
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Authors: | A P Bogatov |
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Institution: | (1) Lebedev Physics Institute, Leninsky prospect 53, 117924 Moscow, Russia |
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Abstract: | The electromagnetic field inside a nonlinear active medium of a laser is considered as a system of counterpropagating waves.
Such an approach changes radically an earlier studied behavior of the lateral field instability due to self-deformaion (or
self-focusing). In our calculations we used an expression for a laser field in the form of two “strong” counterpropagating
waves whose complex amplitudes have weak perturbations. Amplitude perturbations of each of the “strong” waves can be presented
by two spatial harmonics corresponding to two weak perturbation waves with wave vectors making some tilted angle ±φ with the
cavity axis. Thus six waves would participate in the interaction: two counterpropagating strong waves and two pairs of weak
waves. Using this approach, we have developed a theory for the propagation of four “weak” perturbation waves in a nonlinear
amplifying medium in the presence of two counterpropagating “strong” waves. It is shown that perturbation waves with tilted
angle φ⋍0.5–1.2° inside the active region, and respecively, with the side lobes of the far-field pattern at ∼1.7–4°, have
the greatest growth increment. These perturbation waves produce lateral intensity modulation with period 10–30 μm for the
0.85 μm lasing wavelength. The appearance of such waves corresponds to the instability threshold of a homogeneous lateral
distribution of optical power in a diode laser.
The present theory makes it possible to investigate the stability of the homogeneous lateral optical intensity distribution
in a diode laser of any design. This allows one to choose a suitable design of a laser with a homogeneous lateral distribution
at high radiation power. |
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