Aberration-driven tilted emission in degenerate cavities
arXiv:2306.11359 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.013166
Abstract
The compensation of chromatic dispersion opened new avenues and extended the level of control upon pattern formation in the \textit{temporal domain}. In this manuscript, 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 \textit{spatial} domain. Our approach leverages the interplay between optical aberrations and the proximity to the self-imaging condition which allows to cancel or reverse paraxial diffraction. As an example, we show how spherical aberrations materialize into a transverse bilaplacian operator and, thereby, explain the stabilization of temporal solitons travelling 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.
8 figures, 11 pages, published in Phys. Rev. Research
References in corpus (13)
- Third-order chromatic dispersion stabilizes Kerr frequency combs
- Spatially multiplexed single-cavity dual-comb laser
- Electrical Addressing and Temporal Tweezing of Localized Pulses in Passively Mode-Locked Semiconductor Lasers
- Dissipative light bullets in Kerr cavities: multi-stability, clustering, and rogue waves
- Dynamical instabilities of dissipative solitons in nonlinear optical cavities with nonlocal materials
- Observation of mode-locked spatial laser solitons
- Accelerating speckle suppression by a degenerate cavity laser with an intracavity phase diffuser
- Dynamics and instabilities of Lasing Light Bullets in Passively Mode-Locked Semiconductor Lasers
- Topological band structure via twisted photons in a degenerate cavity
- How carrier memory enters the Haus master equation of mode-locking
- Controlling nonlinear interaction in a many-mode laser by tuning disorder
- Sensitive control of broad-area semiconductor lasers by cavity shape
- Aberrated optical cavities