Abstract

I have shown previously that the on-resonance steady states of tuned, single-mode, standing-wave gas lasers can be destabilized by frequency perturbations¹ rather than amplitude perturbations², and that the threshold of such instability coincides with a bifurcation to branches of frequency-pushed steady states. Above such thresholds, both intensity¹ and frequency³ hysteresis, as functions of the cavity detuning, are expected.

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