DISSIPATIVE INSTABILITIES AND SUPERRADIATION REGIMES (CLASSIC MODELS)

Abstract

The generation of an electromagnetic field by oscillators in an open resonator is discussed in a one-dimensional approximation. In this case, the development of the so-called dissipative instability  the dissipative generation regime. Such an instability with the generation of electromagnetic oscillations arises when the decrement of oscillations in an open resonator in the absence of oscillators turns out to be greater than the increment of the resulting instability of the system of oscillators placed in this resonator. It is assumed that the oscillators do not interact with each other, and only the resonator field affects their behavior. If the resonator field is absent or small, the superradiance regime is possible, when the radiation of each oscillator is essential and the field in the system is the sum of all the eigenfields of the oscillators. In the dissipative regime of instability generation, the system of oscillators is synchronized by the induced resonator field. The synchronization of the oscillators in the superradiance mode owes its existence to the integral field of the entire system of oscillators. With a weak nonlinearity of the oscillators, a small initiating external field is required to excite the generation regime. It is noteworthy that the maximum value of the superradiance field is approximately two times less than the maximum field that the same particles could generate if they were at the same point. In all cases, for a given open resonator, the superradiance field turned out to be somewhat larger than the resonator field. Nevertheless, for the same resonator, the increments and attainable field amplitudes in both cases are of the same order of magnitude.