Abstract
Numerical propagation of a nearly resonant pump laser and a weak probe laser in a model vapor of two-level atoms demonstrates an evolution to chaos with propagation distance. We show that the maximum Lyapunov exponent increases with distance of propagation into the medium.
© 1991 Optical Society of America
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