We formulate the dynamics of nonlinear optical Fabry-Perot (FB) cavities in terms of a model in which only one of the two counter-propagating electric field envelopes appear. Thus, the model is simpler than the standard ones but still exact. The field envelope which propagates in the opposite direction is expressed in a very simple way in terms of the envelope that appears in the model. Thus we generalize in the simplest way to the FB case the set of Maxwell-Bloch equations for the ring cavity. The boundary condition for the field envelope that appears in the model is a simple periodicity condition. This feature allows for expanding the variables of the model in terms of traveling waves instead of standing waves as it is customary, which implies noteworthy simplifications in the calculations. On the basis of the modal equations which arise from the model, we discuss the adiabatic elimination of the atomic variables and of the atomic polarization only.

Traveling wave formalism for the dynamics of optical systems in nonlinear Fabry-Perot cavities

L. A. Lugiato;F. Prati
2018-01-01

Abstract

We formulate the dynamics of nonlinear optical Fabry-Perot (FB) cavities in terms of a model in which only one of the two counter-propagating electric field envelopes appear. Thus, the model is simpler than the standard ones but still exact. The field envelope which propagates in the opposite direction is expressed in a very simple way in terms of the envelope that appears in the model. Thus we generalize in the simplest way to the FB case the set of Maxwell-Bloch equations for the ring cavity. The boundary condition for the field envelope that appears in the model is a simple periodicity condition. This feature allows for expanding the variables of the model in terms of traveling waves instead of standing waves as it is customary, which implies noteworthy simplifications in the calculations. On the basis of the modal equations which arise from the model, we discuss the adiabatic elimination of the atomic variables and of the atomic polarization only.
2018
Lugiato, L. A.; Prati, F.
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