Published April 29, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Time localized tilted beams in nearly-degenerate laser cavities

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We show that nearly-degenerate Vertical External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers may emit a set of tilted beams of individually addressable mode-locked pulses. These time localized beams feature a Gaussian profile and they are emitted in pairs with opposite transverse k-vector. Because they are phase locked, their interference leads to a non homothetic pattern in the near-field emission of the laser. In the simplest situation, when a single pair is emitted, this is a stripe pattern. Our analysis discloses the role of third order (spherical) aberrations of the cavity in stabilizing this spatio-temporal mode-locked regime and in selecting the value of the transverse k-vector.

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URL
https://u-paris.hal.science/hal-04588695
URN
urn:oai:HAL:hal-04588695v1

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UNICA