Instabilities and Chaos in Quantum Optics II

This volume contains tutorial papers from the lectures and seminars presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Instabilities and Chaos in Quantum Optics", held at the "Il Ciocco" Conference Center, Castelvecchio Pascoli, Lucca, Italy, June 28-July 7, 1987. The title of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Abraham, N.B., Arecchi, F.T. (Author), Lugiato, L.A. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1988, 1988
Edition:1st ed. 1988
Series:NATO Science Series B:, Physics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Laser (and Maser) Instabilities
  • 25 Years of Laser Instabilities
  • Shil’nikov Chaos in Lasers
  • Instabilities in Fir Lasers
  • Analysis of Instability and Chaos in Optically Pumped three Level Lasers
  • Theory and Experiments in the Laser with Saturable Absorber
  • Gas Laser Instabilities and their Interpretation
  • Experimental Studies of Instabilities and Chaos in Single-Mode, Inhomogeneously Broadened Gas Lasers
  • Multistability and Chaos in a Two-Photon Microscopic Maser
  • Bistable Behavior of a Relativistic Electron Beam in a Magnetic Structure (Wiggler)
  • Classical and Quantum Noise
  • Pump Noise Effects in Dye Lasers
  • Quantum Chaos in Quantum Optics: Lectures on the Quantum Dynamics of Classically Chaotic Systems
  • Transverse Effects
  • Transverse Effects in Nonlinear Optics
  • Spatial Chaos in Bistable Optical Arrays
  • Instabilities in Passive Optical Systems: Temporal and Spatial Patterns
  • Dynamics in Optical Bistability and Nonlinear Optical Media
  • Ikeda Delayed-Feedback Instabilities
  • Experimental Investigation of the Single-Mode Instability in Optical Bistability
  • Dynamics of Optical Bistability in Sodium and Transient Bimodality
  • Optical Bistability: Introduction to Nonlinear Etalons GaAs Etalons and Waveguides; Regenerative Pulsations
  • Spatial and Temporal Instabilities in Semiconductors
  • Four-Wave Mixing and Dynamics
  • Methods of Analysis in Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Bifurcation Problems in Nonlinear Optics
  • Strange Attractors: Estimating the Complexity of Chaotic Signals
  • Methods of Adiabatic Elimination of Variables in Simple Laser Models
  • Meeting report
  • Instabilities, Dynamics and Chaos in Nonlinear Optical Systems
  • Contributors