Turbulence in mode-locked lasers

被引：49

作者：

Kärtner, FX

Zumbühl, DM

Matuschek, N

机构：

[1] MIT, Dept Elect Engn & Comp Sci, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

[2] MIT, Elect Res Lab, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

[3] ETH Honggerberg, Inst Quantum Elect, Ultrafast Laser Phys Lab, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 1999年 / 82卷 / 22期

关键词：

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4428

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

We show that the well-known instability in actively mode-locked lasers with detuning between the resonator round-trip time and the modulator period exhibits a transition to turbulence analogous to fluid flow. We derive a universal normalized detuning of the laser that plays the same role as Reynolds number in fluid flow. This is the first time that the recently proposed theory for the onset of turbulence in hydrodynamics is verified in a system outside of hydrodynamics. [S0031-9007(99)09268-6].

引用

页码：4428 / 4431

页数：4

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