Spectral singularities and CPA-laser action in a weakly nonlinear PT-symmetric bilayer slab

DOI10.1111/SAPM.12054MaRDI QIDQ2935333zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ali Mostafazadeh

Publication date 23 December 2014

Published in Studies in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1737

zbMATH Keywords

coherence perfect absorption-laserKerr nonlinearityoptical spectral singularitiesSchrödinger equationswaveguide

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary differential equations and systems on manifolds (34C40) Antennas, waveguides in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A50) Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60)

Abstract: We study optical spectral singularities of a weakly nonlinear PT-symmetric bilinear planar slab of optically active material. In particular, we derive the lasing threshold condition and calculate the laser output intensity. These reveal the following unexpected features of the system: 1. For the case that the real part of the refractive index $eta$ of the layers are equal to unity, the presence of the lossy layer decreases the threshold gain; 2. For the more commonly encountered situations when $eta-1$ is much larger than the magnitude of the imaginary part of the refractive index, the threshold gain coefficient is a function of $eta$ that has a local minimum. The latter is in sharp contrast to the threshold gain coefficient of a homogeneous slab of gain material which is a decreasing function of $eta$. We use these results to comment on the effect of nonlinearity on the prospects of using this system as a CPA-laser.

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