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We have observed wave chaos in an extremely simple system, namely a passive optical resonator consisting of 3 standard laser mirrors. Nonintegrability, introduced via nonparaxial aberrations, leads to chaos, as evidenced by a statistical analysis of the eigenfrequency spectrum.
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Woerdman, J.P., Dingjan, J., van Exter, M.P. (2003). Experimental Demonstration of Wave Chaos in a Conventional Optical Resonator. In: Bigelow, N.P., Eberly, J.H., Stroud, C.R., Walmsley, I.A. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics VIII. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8907-9_49
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