Abstract

A major factor in the dynamical behavior of solid-state lasers with a weakly anisotropic cavity is a collective interaction of all longitudinal modes of one polarization with the total ensemble of modes of the orthogonal polarization. Our analysis of the dynamics of the polarization modes^[1] demonstrates that along with the well-known in-phase relaxation oscillations of laser modes at frequency Ω₀ the system possesses relaxation oscillations at lower frequencies Ω₁, and Ω₂<Ω₁ which belong to the antiphase dynamics of polarization modes.

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