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There are many systems in physics where macroscopic order appears by some sort of self-organization out of microscopic disorder. Hydrodynamic flows may be among the oldest and most studied examples - I only need to recall the ordered flows appearing in thermal convection or in Couette flows. Optical systems - and there first of all lasers - display this phenomenon of self-organization in an even more spectacular way, creating a highly directed and coherent emission from many independent atoms. The laser has therefore emerged as a paradigmatic model in the field of ‘synergetics’ [1].
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Graham, R. (1984). Chaos in Lasers. In: Frehland, E. (eds) Synergetics — From Microscopic to Macroscopic Order. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 22. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69540-7_6
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