Laser systems with feedback as memristive devices

Jean-Marc Ginoux¹ and Riccardo Meucci^2
1Université de Toulon, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, LIS, Toulon, France

² National Institute of Optics – CNR, Florence, Italy

In many previous publications, we established that most of plasma, i.e., glow discharge tube (singing arc, neon tube, …) are memristors. Then, the question arose to know if a laser can be considered as a memristor. In this work, we prove that the laser with feedback, for which we have already provided the mathematical model, is perfectly analogous to a memristor since it exhibits the main feature of such device, i.e. the existence of a finger loop hysteresis. This result highlights a new link between some optic phenomena and memristor features proving thus the universality of this concept. © Anita Publications. All rights reserved.
Doi: 10.54955/AJP.34.5-6.2025.245-253
Keywords: Free Electron Laser, X-ray laser, coherent FEL.

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