The path to ``turbulence'': Optical bistability and universality in the ring cavity
Abstract
For the complex variable map describing the ring cavity dynamics period doubling sequences show a new dispersive optical bistability. A period doubling sequence is found to be consistent with Feigenbaum's universality conjecture. The feasibility of experimental observation is considered.
- Publication:
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Optics Communications
- Pub Date:
- December 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0030-4018(81)90273-X
- Bibcode:
- 1981OptCo..40...68S
- Keywords:
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- Bistable Circuits;
- Laser Cavities;
- Laser Stability;
- Nonlinear Optics;
- Difference Equations;
- Molecular Relaxation;
- Optical Resonators;
- Period Doubling;
- Ring Structures;
- Turbulence;
- Lasers and Masers