dc.contributor.author | Pick, A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Cerjan, A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Rodriguez, A. W. | |
dc.contributor.author | Stone, A. D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Chong, Y. D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Liu, David | |
dc.contributor.author | Johnson, Steven G. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-06-08T17:34:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-06-08T17:34:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-06 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2015-02 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1050-2947 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1094-1622 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97218 | |
dc.description.abstract | We present a multimode laser-linewidth theory for arbitrary cavity structures and geometries that contains nearly all previously known effects and also finds new nonlinear and multimode corrections, e.g., a correction to the α factor due to openness of the cavity and a multimode Schawlow-Townes relation (each linewidth is proportional to a sum of inverse powers of all lasing modes). Our theory produces a quantitatively accurate formula for the linewidth, with no free parameters, including the full spatial degrees of freedom of the system. Starting with the Maxwell-Bloch equations, we handle quantum and thermal noise by introducing random currents whose correlations are given by the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. We derive coupled-mode equations for the lasing-mode amplitudes and obtain a formula for the linewidths in terms of simple integrals over the steady-state lasing modes. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (Contract W911NF-13-D-0001) | en_US |
dc.publisher | American Physical Society | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.91.063806 | en_US |
dc.rights | Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. | en_US |
dc.source | American Physical Society | en_US |
dc.title | Ab initio multimode linewidth theory for arbitrary inhomogeneous laser cavities | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Pick, A., A. Cerjan, D. Liu, A. W. Rodriguez, A. D. Stone, Y. D. Chong, and S. G. Johnson. “Ab Initio Multimode Linewidth Theory for Arbitrary Inhomogeneous Laser Cavities.” Phys. Rev. A 91, no. 6 (June 2015). © 2015 American Physical Society | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics | en_US |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Liu, David | en_US |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Johnson, Steven G. | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | Physical Review A | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en_US |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
dc.date.updated | 2015-06-04T22:00:20Z | |
dc.language.rfc3066 | en | |
dc.rights.holder | American Physical Society | |
dspace.orderedauthors | Pick, A.; Cerjan, A.; Liu, D.; Rodriguez, A. W.; Stone, A. D.; Chong, Y. D.; Johnson, S. G. | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-4967 | |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2312-8483 | |
mit.license | PUBLISHER_POLICY | en_US |
mit.metadata.status | Complete | |