Chaos in phase-conjugate resonators as a multimodal mapping

M.R.Belic, P.Stojkov

Institute of Physics, PO Box 57, 11001 Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Optical and Quantum Electronics 22 (1990) 157-165

Received 30 May, accepted 3 July 1989

An optical phase-conjugate resonator, realizad by a Kerr-like phase conjugator, and represented by a two-dimensional slowly varying envelope plane-wave model is driven to chaos using two laser pumps in standard four-wave mixing geometry. The relevant slowly varying envelope wave equations are reduced to a one-dimensional map for intracavity intensity arising in this analysis are considered using elementary symbolic dynamics methods.