EFFECTS OF SATURATION IN THE TRANSIENT PROCESS OF A DYE-LASER .2. COLORED-NOISE CASE

We have derived the approximate formulas of the mean, variance, and skewness of the first-passage-time distribution for the colored-loss-noise model and the colored-gain-noise model of the dye laser by virtue of the best Fokker-Planck-equation approximation. Comparing the colored-loss-noise model with the colored cubic model, it is shown that our analytic results are in good agreement with the numerical simulation given by Zhu, Yu, and Roy [Phys. Rev. A 34, 4333 (1986)]. We find that the prefactor of the pump fluctuation term can curb the variance and skewness of the first-passage-time distribution. In the regime 0.8 < I0 < 1, where I0 denotes the relative laser intensity, the best Fokker-Planck equation predicts that as the laser intensity is increased, the increases of the variance and skewness of the first-passage-time distribution for the colored saturation models are slower than those of corresponding white saturation models.