Dynamical instability, chaotic pulsations, and generalized bistability have been observed in a laser-diode-pumped microchip Nd:YAG laser operating in a double transition scheme in which lasing occurs on two transitions with overlapping gain profiles, F3/24(2)→ I11/24(3) and F3/24(1)→ I11/24(2), and simultaneously involves excited Nd atoms from different sublevels of the upper manifold. The modeling of the experimental results requires rate equations that include cross-gain coupling among oscillating modes that belong to different transitions whose population inversion densities are determined by the Boltzmann distribution.
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Kenju Otsuka, Jing-Yuan Ko, Tamaki Kubota, Siao-Lung Hwong, Tsong-Shin Lim, Jyh-Long Chern, Ba An Nguyen, and Paul Mandel, "Instability in a laser-diode-pumped microchip Nd:YAG laser in a n-ary product scheme," Opt. Lett. 26, 1060-1062 (2001)