Instabilities and chaos in the polarizations of counterpropagating light fields
- 8 June 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 58 (23), 2432-2435
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.58.2432
Abstract
We show that the polarizations of counterpropagating light waves in an isotropic Kerr medium are temporally unstable when their total intensity exceeds a certain threshold value. Periodic and chaotic temporal behavior can occur in the output polarizations and under certain conditions also in the output intensities.Keywords
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