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Control of laser radiation parameters

Quasiperiodic transition to chaos in a multimode YAG:Nd³⁺ laser with modulated parameters

O. N. Evdokimova, L. N. Kaptsov


Abstract: Numerical and experimental investigations were made of the nature of the transition to chaos in the case of YAG:Nd³⁺ laser with modulated parameters. It was found that the interaction of longitudinal modes via a spatially distributed population inversion was responsible for the transition to chaos in accordance with the Ruelle–Takens–Newhouse scenario. The chaos appearance threshold was minimal near the frequency of purely relaxational oscillations.

UDC: 621.373.826.038.825.2

PACS: 42.55.Rz, 42.60.By, 42.65.Sf, 42.60.Fc, 42.60.Mi

Received: 17.05.1989

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1990, 20:7, 824–827

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