Abstract
The intracavity intensity of an empty phase-conjugate resonator in which the phase-conjugate mirror is a Kerr medium with instantaneous response can exhibit a sequence of period-doubling bifurcations to chaos. We show that the first such bifurcation is in general already sufficient to induce a quasi-periodic motion of the field phase, leading in practice to its complete indetermination.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 982-984 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 1985 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics