Instabilities and routes to chaos in a homogeneously broadened 1- and 2-mode ring laser
- 1 June 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 31 (6), 4049-4051
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.31.4049
Abstract
A bidirectionally emitting ring laser at 376-μm wavelength) exhibits self-pulsing and chaos. The routes to chaos are found to be either a one-frequency–period-doubling route to chaos, or a one-frequency–two-frequencies–phase-locking– period-doubling route to chaos: windows within the chaotic range, the same as reported for a two-roll Bénard convection cell experiment. In single-mode operation an instability is observed under conditions compatible with the Lorenz model.
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