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We analyze the competition between counter-propagating waves in a bidirectional ring laser, under the approximation of a population decay rate (γ‖ small compared with the relaxation rates of the polarization (γ⊥) and electric field (k). Accordingly, the atomic polarization can be adiabatically eliminated and the only variable explicitely depending on space turns out to be the population, △(x), which is expanded in Fourier modes. The resulting infinite cascade of equations is usually truncated after the first harmonic [1], assuming that the contributions of higher order modes are negligible.
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An extended report on the numerical analysis will be published elsewhere.
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D’Alessandro, G., Politi, A., Arecchi, F.T. (1990). Competition Between Counter-Propagating Waves in Laser Dynamics. In: Eberly, J.H., Mandel, L., Wolf, E. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics VI. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0847-8_38
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