SPATIOTEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF A WEAKLY MULTIMODE CO2-LASER

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HENNEQUIN, D
LEPERS, C
LOUVERGNEAUX, E
DANGOISSE, D
GLORIEUX, P
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[1] Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Hertzienne1 1 The Laboratoire, Spectroscopie Hertzienne is Unité, Recherche Associée au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (URA 249)., F-59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex
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10.1016/0030-4018(92)90192-T
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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The behavior of a slightly asymmetric weakly multimode CO2 laser is studied experimentally and compared with that of perfectly cylindrically symmetrical lasers. It is found that in most cases, the system symmetry breaking destroys the vortices, although it appears that for a very small loss of symmetry, the behavior of the laser remains symmetrical.
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