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Based on numerical simulation of the nonstationary working of a CW superradiant laser with a low-Q combined Fabry-Perot cavity with distributed feedback of waves, we describe a parametric mechanism of self-mode-locking caused by beats of two superradiant modes with a period half that of the cavity round-trip period and supporting the formation of a soliton of the electromagnetic field inside the cavity without using any additional mode-locking technique.
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This research was supported by the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (fundamental research program “Nanostructures: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Basic Technology,” Secs. 1–4) and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grant No. 20-02-00872, Secs. 5 and 6).
Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 203, No. 1, pp. 56–77, April, 2020.
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Kocharovsky, V.V., Mishin, A.V., Seleznev, A.F. et al. Parametric effect in a superradiant laser with self-mode-locking. Theor Math Phys 203, 483–500 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040577920040054
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