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Acta Physica Sinica (Overseas Edition)

Influence of detuning on the butterfly effect of laser oscillation

TAN WEI-HAN, Guo-bin Ma, Zhuang Jun, Renhong Liu

Published Dec 1, 1994• 1 citation
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Abstract

In this paper the butterfly effects of single mode laser oscillation are studied. It is shown that the detuning between laser oscillation and atomic transition frequency leads to a decrease in second threshold, which makes the demonstration of chaos theory in experiment easy.
DOI
10.1088/1004-423x/3/12/002

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