Optical Turbulence: Chaotic Behavior of Transmitted Light from a Ring Cavity
- 1 September 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 45 (9), 709-712
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.45.709
Abstract
It is theoretically shown that the transmitted light from a ring cavity containing a nonlinear dielectric medium undergoes transition from a stationary state to periodic and nonperiodic states, when the intensity of the incident light is increased. The nonperiodic state is characterized by a chaotic variation of the light intensity and associated broadband noise in the power spectrum. The experimental possibility of observing such a transition is also discussed.Keywords
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