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In recent years radically new mathematical insights into the dynamical behavior of many nonlinear systems show that along with yielding regular and repeatable behaviour, many nonlinear systems also exhibit unstable, even chaotic, solutions. Furthermore, the transition from stable to chaotic behaviour, which may occur when varying a control parameter of the system, follows specific, well-defined routes which are universal in the sense that they are independent of the physical properties of the system they describe. It is these signatures which have been a major impetus to experimentalists in the subsequent search for physical systems that exhibit these phenomena. Such phenomena exist in optics; both lasers (active systems), in which the optical signal is derived from stimulated emission generated within an optical cavity containing a gain medium,and passive systems for which the optical signal is but the transmission of an input light signal through an optical cavity containing a nonlinear medium. The latter are being increasingly recognised for their potential application as bistable all-optical logic elements.
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Harrison, R.G., Moloney, J.V., Uppal, J.S. (1987). Chaos and Pulsating Instabilities in Lasers. In: Haken, H. (eds) Computational Systems — Natural and Artificial. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 38. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73089-4_14
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