Nonlinear operation of an FP laser with PT symmetry active medium

Abstract

In this paper, an analysis of the nonlinear laser operation in an active medium made of a parity time (PT) symmetric structure placed in a Fabry-Perot (FP) resonator is demonstrated for the first time. The FP mirrors’ reflection coefficients and phases, the PT symmetric structure period, primitive cell number, and the gain and loss saturation effects are taken into account in a presented theoretical model. The modified transfer matrix method is used to obtain characteristics of laser output intensity. Numerical results show that the selection of the appropriate phase of the FP resonator’s mirrors makes it possible to obtain different levels of the output intensity. Moreover, for certain value of a ratio of the grating period to the operating wavelength, it is possible to obtain the bistability effect.