LIST OF TOPICS 23.2 Other Novel Unstable Resonator Designs 899 23.3 Variable-Reflectivity Unstable Resonators 913 LASER DYNAMICS AND ADVANCED TOPICS Chapter 24 Laser Dynamics:The Laser Cavity Equations 24.1 Derivation of the Laser Cavity Equations 923 24.2 External Signal Sources 932 24.3 Coupled Cavity-Atom Equations 941 24.4 Alternative Formulations of the Laser Equations 944 24.5 Cavity and Atomic Rate Equations 949 Chapter 25 Laser Spiking and Mode Competition 25.1 Laser Spiking and Relaxation Oscillations 955 25.2 Laser Amplitude Modulation 971 25.3 Laser Frequency Modulation and Frequency Switching 980 25.4 Laser Mode Competition 992 Chapter 26 Laser Q-Switching 26.1 Laser Q-Switching:General Description 1004 26.2 Active Q-Switching:Rate-Equation Analysis 1008 26.3 Passive (Saturable Absorber)Q-Switching 1024 26.4 Repetitive Laser Q-Switching 1028 26.5 Mode Selection in Q-Switched Lasers 1034 26.6 Q-Switched Laser Applications 1039 Chapter 27 Active Laser Mode Coupling 27.1 Optical Signals:Time and Frequency Descriptions 1041 27.2 Mode-Locked Lasers:An Overview 1056 27.3 Time-Domain Analysis:Homogeneous Mode Locking 1061 274 Transient and Detuning Effects 1075 27.5 Frequency-Domain Analysis:Coupled Mode Equations 1087 27.6 The Modulator Polarization Term 1092 27.7 FM Laser Operation 1095 Chapter 28 Passive Mode Locking 28.1 Pulse Shortening in Saturable Absorbers 1104 28.2 Passive Mode Locking in Pulsed Lasers 1109 28.3 Passive Mode Locking in CW Lasers 1117 Chapter 29 Laser Injection Locking 29.1 Injection Locking of Oscillators 1130 29.2 Basic Injection Locking Analysis 1138 29.3 The Locked Oscillator Regime 1142 29.4 Solutions Outside the Locking Range 1148