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Essentially all of the theoretical studies of laser instabilities in inhomogenously broadened media have been restricted to non-Doppler broadened lasers or unidirectional ring lasers to avoid the complications of the spatial variations caused by the standing wave pattern in a Fabry-Perot cavity and to avoid effects of the two holes burned in the gain profile by single mode operation [1–7]. In contrast, the reports of single-mode laser instabilities in dc-excited systems have all been for Fabry-Perot lasers, making comparisons between theory and experiments difficult at times [1,8–13]. The unidirectional ring theory is significantly simpler than the standing wave Doppler theory so there has been considerable interest in providing a suitable laser for experimental tests.
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Urbach, L.E., Liu, SN., Abraham, N.B. (1984). Instabilities and Routes to Chaos in a Unidirectional, Inhomogeneously Broadened Ring Laser. In: Mandel, L., Wolf, E. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics V. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0605-5_87
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