Correlation of fluctuations of the quadrature amplitudes of interacting modes in the instability region of intracavity third-harmonic generation

Correlation of fluctuations of quadrature amplitudes of interacting modes is studied for the process of intracavity third-harmonic generation in the region of instability. It is shown that this correlation strongly depends on the value of the nonlinear mode coupling coefficient. For small values of the coupling coefficient, correlation of fluctuations of quadrature amplitudes is small. With increasing coupling coefficient, the correlation increases (states of the subsystems become entangled). Then, starting from a certain value of the coupling coefficient, it starts decreasing gradually, tending to zero (entanglement of states of the subsystems decreases). Correlation of fluctuations of quadrature amplitudes decreases also when the amplitude of the fundamental mode perturbing field is decreased.