Abstract: | The influence of saturation on plane-cavity modes of the xenon laser is investigated. A phenomenon is revealed which is treated as a spontaneous break of symmetry of the waveguide modes. P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 8, pp. 50–52, August, 1999. |