Effects of Spatially Nonuniform Gain on Lasing Modes in Weakly Scattering Random Systems

Autor: Andreasen, Jonathan, Vanneste, Christian, Ge, Li, Cao, Hui
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Phys. Rev. A 81 (2010) 043818
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.043818
Popis: A study on the effects of optical gain nonuniformly distributed in one-dimensional random systems is presented. It is demonstrated numerically that even without gain saturation and mode competition, the spatial nonuniformity of gain can cause dramatic and complicated changes to lasing modes. Lasing modes are decomposed in terms of the quasi modes of the passive system to monitor the changes. As the gain distribution changes gradually from uniform to nonuniform, the amount of mode mixing increases. Furthermore, we investigate new lasing modes created by nonuniform gain distributions. We find that new lasing modes may disappear together with existing lasing modes, thereby causing fluctuations in the local density of lasing states.
Comment: 26 pages, 10 figures (quality reduced for arXiv)
Databáze: arXiv