Title :
Space-time instabilities in gas lasers
Author_Institution :
Inst. Non-Lineaire, Univ. de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France
Abstract :
We review 10 years of experimental and theoretical studies on instabilities, chaos and space-time complexity in laser systems. From the first experiment showing the existence of chaos until the most recently results on the existence of turbulence in optics, a whole new subject was developed using theoretical results that can be applied to many different sciences like biology, chemistry, physics, etc
Keywords :
gas lasers; laser stability; optical chaos; reviews; turbulence; biology; chaos; chemistry; gas lasers; laser systems; optics; physics; review; space-time complexity; space-time instabilities; turbulence; Biology; Biomedical optical imaging; Chaos; Chemical lasers; Chemistry; Gas lasers; Laser theory; Maxwell equations; Nonlinear optics; Physics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1993. LEOS '93 Conference Proceedings. IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1263-5
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1993.379410
