Strange Attractor (Optical Turbulence) in a Model Problem for the Laser with Saturable Absorber and the Two-Component Benard Convection

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1 August 1981

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Progress of Theoretical Physics

Vol. 66 (2) , 717-720
https://doi.org/10.1143/ptp.66.717

Abstract

We describe the basic features of a strange attractor appearing in a model problem for a laser with saturable absorber and the truncated five-mode description of the two-component Bénard convection.

Keywords

BENARD CONVECTION
STRANGE ATTRACTOR
OPTICAL TURBULENCE
SATURABLE ABSORBER
COMPONENT BENARD
LASER

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