Homoclinic orbits and cycles in the instabilities of a laser with a saturable absorber
- 1 March 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 37 (6) , 2243-2246
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.37.2243
Abstract
The phase-space evolution for the instabilities in a laser with an intracavity saturable absorber is investigated experimentally. The different scenarios corresponding to limit cycles, homoclinic orbits and cycles involving two unstable points, and chaotic behavior are investigated. A theoretical analysis of the experimental results is sketched out.
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