Instabilities and chaos in quantum optics II; Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Il Ciocco, Italy, June 28-July 7, 1987

N. B. Abraham, F. T. Arecchi, Luigi A. Lugiato

Published Jan 1, 1988• 7 citations

Abstract

The following topics are considered: laser and maser instabilities, classical and quantum noise, transverse effects, dynamics in optical bistability and nonlinear optical media, and methods of analysis in nonlinear dynamics. Particular papers are presented on multistability and chaos in a two-photon microscopic maser, quantum chaos in quantum optics, spatial chaos in bistable optical arrays, four-wave mixing and dynamics, and bifurcation problems in nonlinear optics.

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