TY - JOUR
T1 - Chaos in photorefractive four-wave mixing with a single grating and a single interaction region
AU - Królikowski, Wiesław
AU - Belić, Milivoj R.
AU - Cronin-Golomb, Mark
AU - Błedowski, Aleksander
PY - 1990/7
Y1 - 1990/7
N2 - We show that the standard model of four-wave mixing in a photorefractive crystal predicts the appearance of deterministic chaos. In this model there is a single (transmission) grating and no external or internal (intracavity) feedback. The intensity of the phase-conjugate wave is found to exhibit a period-doubling route to chaos on variation of the intensity of the probe beam and the linear absorption coefficient. The crucial elements in obtaining chaotic behavior are operation above the threshold for self-oscillation and the presence of an external electric field, which causes a shift in the optical frequency of the phase-conjugate wave.
AB - We show that the standard model of four-wave mixing in a photorefractive crystal predicts the appearance of deterministic chaos. In this model there is a single (transmission) grating and no external or internal (intracavity) feedback. The intensity of the phase-conjugate wave is found to exhibit a period-doubling route to chaos on variation of the intensity of the probe beam and the linear absorption coefficient. The crucial elements in obtaining chaotic behavior are operation above the threshold for self-oscillation and the presence of an external electric field, which causes a shift in the optical frequency of the phase-conjugate wave.
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U2 - 10.1364/JOSAB.7.001204
DO - 10.1364/JOSAB.7.001204
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84893129057
SN - 0740-3224
VL - 7
SP - 1204
EP - 1209
JO - Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
JF - Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
IS - 7
ER -