Instabilities and Chaos in Quantum Optics

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

N. B. Abraham, E. Arimondo, Robert W. Boyd

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

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.

Peter W. Milonni

Ekpekpo

The main schemes of optical bistability and phase conjugation is review with particular emphasis on the instabilities and routes to chaos that occur there. Their impact on the performances of nonlinear optical devices is discussed.

R. H. Graham