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A Cellular Automaton Model of a Laser with Saturable Absorber Reproducing Laser Passive Q-switching

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Cellular Automata (ACRI 2022)

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In this paper, we present a cellular automata model for a two-level laser which includes a saturable absorber. We show that the model reproduces laser passive Q-switching, a behavior in which intense short pulses of laser radiation are produced. Depending on the concentration of the absorbent, the automaton model qualitatively reproduces two operating states of the laser: a stable state and another oscillatory or pulsed state.

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Acknowledgments

This research was financed by projects PGC2018-094952-B-I00 (INTRACER), PID2019-110455GB-I00 (Par-Hot), US-1381077 (CIUCAP-HSF) from FEDER/Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación – Agencia Estatal de Investigación, and by project P20_01121 (FRAC) from the Consejería de Transformación Económica, Industria, Conocimiento y Universidades (Junta de Andalucía).

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  1. Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012, Sevilla, Spain

    Francisco Jiménez-Morales

  2. Department of Computer Architecture and Technology, Universidad de Sevilla, Avenida Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012, Sevilla, Spain

    José-Luis Guisado-Lizar

  3. Research Institute of Computer Engineering (I3US), Universidad de Sevilla, Avenida Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012, Sevilla, Spain

    José-Luis Guisado-Lizar

  4. Departamento de Optica, Facultad de C.C. Físicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    José Manuel Guerra

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  1. University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Bastien Chopard

  2. University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

    Stefania Bandini

  3. University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

    Alberto Dennunzio

  4. University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Mira Arabi Haddad

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Jiménez-Morales, F., Guisado-Lizar, JL., Guerra, J.M. (2022). A Cellular Automaton Model of a Laser with Saturable Absorber Reproducing Laser Passive Q-switching. In: Chopard, B., Bandini, S., Dennunzio, A., Arabi Haddad, M. (eds) Cellular Automata. ACRI 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13402. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14926-9_15

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