Concepedia

Chaos in a Laser System under a Modulated External Field

Physical Review Letters · 1980 · 72 citations · 12 references

Concepts

PhotonicsNonlinear OscillationPhysicsChaos TheoryChaotic BehaviorSingle-mode LaserLaser SystemQuantum ChaosChaotic MixingNonlinear ResonancePower Spectrum

Abstract

It is shown that a single-mode laser under the influence of an external modulated field may show chaotic behavior. The power spectrum and the separation distance are calculated to demonstrate the existence of chaos.

References

12

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