Abstract

Recently there has been renewed interest in studying the dynamics of multimode lasers. So far studies on the dynamics of multimode lasers have mainly focused on lasers whose mode coupling is phase insensitive, such as multimode lasers whose intermode frequency spacing is fairly large. But there exist situations of multimode lasers where the mode interaction is phase sensitive /1,2/. In this paper we present an experimental study on the dynamics of a phase sensitive mode interaction. We show that the existence of phase interaction and the coupling between the phase and amplitude results in substantially new dynamics of a multimode laser.

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