Abstract

The subject of spontaneous pulsations in Optical Bistability has stimulated considerable interest following its prediction by Bonifacio, and Lugiato¹ in the framework of the plane-wave, ring cavity model and the realization by McCall² of an electro-optical converter of cw coherent light into pulsed radiation. In a subsequent important development Ikeda³ showed that, in the dispersive case, the Bonifacio-Lugiato instability leads to chaotic behavior (optical turbulence). This was later observed in a hybrid device by Gibbs, et al⁴.

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