Abstract

Gas lasers with weak anisotropic cavities are known to exhibit some new features in polarization behaviour of which the most interesting is the polarization instability observed without any time-dependent external influence in a series of experiments^1,2 The aim of the present work is to propose a mathematical model of polarization instability, to show its validity by confirming the known experimental results, and to find new nonlinear polarization effects.

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