We show that the instability threshold for a laser in which both polarizations are active can be much lower than the Haken second threshold and does not require the bad-cavity limit.
© 1987 Optical Society of America
Original Manuscript: October 21, 1986
Manuscript Accepted: January 6, 1987
Published: April 1, 1987
G. P. Puccioni, G. L. Oppo, M. V. Tratnik, and J. E. Sipe, "Low instability threshold in a laser operating in both states of polarization," Opt. Lett. 12, 242-244 (1987)