Abstract
It is shown that spontaneous emission in rare-earth microchip lasers can lead to large intensity fluctuations which are similar to fluctuations in thresholdless lasers.
© 2000 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
N.J. van Druten, Y. Lien, C. Serrat, S.S.R. Oemrawsingh, M.P. van Exter, and J.P. Woerdman
QTuF6 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO:FS) 2000
W Lüthy and HP Weber
CTuA1 The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/Europe) 2000
G. Huber, V. Peters, and K. Petermann
CFH3 The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/Europe) 2000