Steady-state ab initio laser theory for complex gain media

Steady-state ab initio laser theory for complex gain media.

We derive and test a generalization of the steady-state ab initio laser theory (SALT) to treat complex gain media. The generalized theory (C-SALT) is able to treat atomic and molecular gain media with diffusion and multiple lasing transitions, and semiconductor gain media in the free carrier approximation including fully the effect of Pauli blocking. The key assumption of the theory is stationa...

Steady-state Ab Initio Laser Theory and its Applications in Random and Complex Media

Steady-state Ab Initio Laser Theory and its Applications in Random and Complex Media Li Ge 2010 A semiclassical theory of single and multimode lasing, the Steady-state Ab Initio Laser Theory (SALT), is presented in this thesis. It is a generalization of the previous work by Türeci et al which determines the steady-state solutions of the Maxwell-Bloch (MB) equations, based on a set of self-consi...

A scalable numerical approach for the Steady-State Ab-Initio Laser Theory

Scalable numerical approach for the steady-state ab initio laser theory

S. Esterhazy,1,* D. Liu,2 M. Liertzer,3 A. Cerjan,4 L. Ge,5,6 K. G. Makris,3,7 A. D. Stone,4 J. M. Melenk,1 S. G. Johnson,8 and S. Rotter3,† 1Institute for Analysis and Scientific Computing, Vienna University of Technology, A-1040 Vienna, Austria, EU 2Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 3Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna Univ...

Ab initio self-consistent laser theory and random lasers

We review our recent work leading to steady-state solutions of the semiclassical (Maxwell-Bloch) equations of a laser. These are coupled non-linear partial differential equations in space and time which have previously been solved either by fully time-dependent numerical simulations or by using major approximations which neglect non-linear modal interactions and/or the openness of the laser sys...