Experimental Evidence of Subharmonic Bifurcations, Multistability, and Turbulence in a Q-Switched Gas Laser

Year: 1982

Authors: Arecchi F.T., Meucci R., Puccioni GP., Tredicce J.

Autors Affiliation: Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Largo E. Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy;
University of Florence, 50125 Firenze, Italy

Abstract: Subharmonic bifurcations, generalized multistability, and chaotic behavior were found experimentally in a Q-switched CO:, laser operating at 10.6 pm. Jumps between two strange attractors lead to a low-frequency (l/f type) divergence in the power spectrum.
This is the first experimental evidence of these phenomena in a quantum-optical molecular system. A theoretical model is also presented whose results are in good agreement with the experimental data.

Journal/Review: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Volume: 49 (17)      Pages from: 1217  to: 1220

KeyWords: Turbulence; Multistability
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.1217

Citations: 494
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