Abstract

In this presentation we model the dynamical behaviour of the simplest array of coupled Nd:YAG lasers, that is two lasers in a parallel configuration [1]. The system may be modelled via rate equations obtained by adiabatically eliminating the material polarisations from the Maxwell-Bloch equations (single-mode class-B lasers). In the resulting set of coupled ordinary differential equations, interaction between the two lasers via evanescent overlap is accounted for by a real coupling parameter K, its magnitude being governed by the coupled laser geometry.

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