Abstract

Random lasers (RLs) are a special type of laser with a feedback mechanism arising from the random photon scattering in a disordered medium. Their emitted intensity is inherently stochastic. Here we compare results for the intensity distribution from two classes of models. The first concerns electromagnetic wave scattering in a random medium with field amplitudes and phases as independent random or locally correlated variables [random phase sum (RPS)-based models]. In the second, stochastic differential equations describe the mode dynamics in a random medium. Whereas RPS-based models imply Rayleigh, exponential, and $K$ distributions, in the second class we extend to any degree $f$ of optical nonlinearity previous results valid only up to the sixth order, introducing a novel family of intensity distributions, the generalized Izrailev distributions of order $f$. Model predictions are compared to very large experimental datasets from two quite distinct RLs: a ${{\rm Nd}^{3 +}}$-doped nanopowder and a mixture of colloids containing ${{\rm TiO}_2}$ particles and a dye solution. While RPS models do not provide good data fits, excellent agreement is found with the stochastic differential model, indicating that it properly captures the influence of high-order nonlinearities on the intensity distribution of RLs.

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