Steady-state ab initio laser theory for N-level lasers

• Main Authors: Cerjan, Alexander, Chong, Yidong, Ge, Li, Stone, A. Douglas
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101247; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18335
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We show that Steady-state Ab initio Laser Theory (SALT) can be applied to find the stationary multimode lasing properties of an N-level laser. This is achieved by mapping the N-level rate equations to an effective two-level model of the type solved by the SALT algorithm. This mapping yields excellen...