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Main Authors: Seegert, Kristian, Yu, Yi, Heuck, Mikkel, Mørk, Jesper
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09814
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author Seegert, Kristian
Yu, Yi
Heuck, Mikkel
Mørk, Jesper
author_facet Seegert, Kristian
Yu, Yi
Heuck, Mikkel
Mørk, Jesper
contents We develop a unified instantaneous-mode description for lasers with dispersive cavities, exploiting the separation of timescales between fast cavity fields and slow carrier dynamics. The resulting reduced rate equations retain the essential effects of frequency-dependent mirrors through a dynamic modal gain and an effective confinement factor determined directly by the mirror reflectivity. Applied to a Fano laser, the reduced description accurately reproduces the full dynamics and clarifies the physical origin of dispersive instabilities. More generally, the approach provides a transparent framework for reduced modeling and stability analysis of dispersive laser cavities.
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spellingShingle Instantaneous modes in dispersive laser cavities
Seegert, Kristian
Yu, Yi
Heuck, Mikkel
Mørk, Jesper
Optics
We develop a unified instantaneous-mode description for lasers with dispersive cavities, exploiting the separation of timescales between fast cavity fields and slow carrier dynamics. The resulting reduced rate equations retain the essential effects of frequency-dependent mirrors through a dynamic modal gain and an effective confinement factor determined directly by the mirror reflectivity. Applied to a Fano laser, the reduced description accurately reproduces the full dynamics and clarifies the physical origin of dispersive instabilities. More generally, the approach provides a transparent framework for reduced modeling and stability analysis of dispersive laser cavities.
title Instantaneous modes in dispersive laser cavities
topic Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09814