TIME AVERAGING OF IRREGULAR SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS OF A LARGE APERTURE LASER IN TRANSITORY REGIME
2001 ◽
Vol 11
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pp. 1771-1779
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By means of a new experimental technique, we measure quasi-intantaneous transverse intensity patterns in the gain-switch peak of a transversely excited atmospheric CO 2 laser with large aperture. The patterns recorded with a 2 ns resolution show a completely irregular spatiotemporal behavior, but when the exposure time of the measurements increases, boundary-determined ordered structures can be observed. As a quantification of this averaging process, the contrast of the intensity distributions decreases as the time integration grows. The results are numerically reproduced by integration of the full Maxwell–Bloch equations.
2014 ◽
Vol 19
(5)
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pp. 548-555
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2008 ◽
Vol 40
(5-6)
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pp. 447-453
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2001 ◽
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2011 ◽
pp. 120-135
1996 ◽
Vol 136
(3)
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pp. 291-303
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1999 ◽
Vol 09
(03)
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pp. 555-559
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