Abstract

By increasing the Fresnel number F of a ring cavity with photorefractive gain, we show the transition between a low-F regime, where a few modes compete with a periodic alternation which becomes irregular with increasing F (chaotic itinerancy), and a high-F regime, where many modes oscillate simultaneously, giving rise to chaotic domains spatially correlated over a length much shorter than the wave-front size (spatiotemporal chaos).

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ChaoticPhysicsPhotorefractive effectAlternation (linguistics)CHAOS (operating system)OpticsFront (military)Quantum opticsStatistical physicsMeteorologyComputer science

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Year
1990
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article
Volume
65
Issue
20
Pages
2531-2534
Citations
246
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F. T. Arecchi, Giovanni Giacomelli, P. L. Ramazza et al. (1990). Experimental evidence of chaotic itinerancy and spatiotemporal chaos in optics. Physical Review Letters , 65 (20) , 2531-2534. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.65.2531

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10.1103/physrevlett.65.2531
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10042621

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