Laser dynamics

What happens inside the gain medium: the rate equations behind the lasing threshold, gain clamping and relaxation oscillations, and the Maxwell-Bloch equations whose bad-cavity instability makes a single-mode laser chaotic.

Schawlow and Townes: the lasing threshold from the laser rate equations

Schawlow and Townes: the lasing threshold from the laser rate equations

Haken’s laser-Lorenz analogy: Maxwell-Bloch dynamics and laser chaos

Haken's laser-Lorenz analogy: Maxwell-Bloch dynamics and laser chaos