Aberration-driven tilted emission in degenerate cavities
The compensation of chromatic dispersion opened new avenues and extended the level of control upon pattern formation in the temporal domain. In this paper, we propose the use of a nearly degenerate laser cavity as a general framework allowing for the exploration of higher contributions to diffractio...
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| author | S. V. Gurevich F. Maucher J. Javaloyes |
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| description | The compensation of chromatic dispersion opened new avenues and extended the level of control upon pattern formation in the temporal domain. In this paper, we propose the use of a nearly degenerate laser cavity as a general framework allowing for the exploration of higher contributions to diffraction in the spatial domain. Our approach leverages the interplay between optical aberrations and the proximity to the self-imaging condition, which allows us to cancel or reverse paraxial diffraction. As an example, we show how spherical aberrations materialize into a transverse bi-Laplacian operator and, thereby, explain the stabilization of temporal solitons traveling off-axis in an unstable mode-locked broad-area surface-emitting laser. We disclose an analogy between these regimes and the dynamics of a quantum particle in a double-well potential. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1a659c9d7cef4230baf5353264477cb82024-04-12T17:39:11ZengAmerican Physical SocietyPhysical Review Research2643-15642024-02-016101316610.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.013166Aberration-driven tilted emission in degenerate cavitiesS. V. GurevichF. MaucherJ. JavaloyesThe compensation of chromatic dispersion opened new avenues and extended the level of control upon pattern formation in the temporal domain. In this paper, we propose the use of a nearly degenerate laser cavity as a general framework allowing for the exploration of higher contributions to diffraction in the spatial domain. Our approach leverages the interplay between optical aberrations and the proximity to the self-imaging condition, which allows us to cancel or reverse paraxial diffraction. As an example, we show how spherical aberrations materialize into a transverse bi-Laplacian operator and, thereby, explain the stabilization of temporal solitons traveling off-axis in an unstable mode-locked broad-area surface-emitting laser. We disclose an analogy between these regimes and the dynamics of a quantum particle in a double-well potential.http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.013166 |
| spellingShingle | S. V. Gurevich F. Maucher J. Javaloyes Aberration-driven tilted emission in degenerate cavities Physical Review Research |
| title | Aberration-driven tilted emission in degenerate cavities |
| title_full | Aberration-driven tilted emission in degenerate cavities |
| title_fullStr | Aberration-driven tilted emission in degenerate cavities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Aberration-driven tilted emission in degenerate cavities |
| title_short | Aberration-driven tilted emission in degenerate cavities |
| title_sort | aberration driven tilted emission in degenerate cavities |
| url | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.013166 |
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